By Bonnie Goldberg

Imagine your favorite science fiction comic book characters coming to life on a large screen, in color and with voices and sound effects. This seemingly far-fetched idea is a reality today…if by today we mean Saturday, January 21 at 8 p.m. at the Belding Theater in Hartford, part of the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.

Turn back your imaginary time clocks to 1933 and experience “The Intergalactic Nemesis,” billed as a science fiction period piece, stuffed with romance, horror and suspense. Travel along with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Molly Sloan, her intrepid sidekick assistant Timmy and a mysterious librarian Ben as they race to save the world.  Sludge monsters from the planet Zygon are set to invade and this unlikely trio of heroes is all that is posed to stop them.

Listen and feast your eyes as the giant screen is enhanced by three live actors, a Foley artist making the sound effects resonate and a keyboardist adding appropriately spooky music. Over 1000 hand-drawn comic book images will barrel and blast you to intergalactic nirvana, LIVE.

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TOM SANTOPIETRO HAS A RAINBOW BY THE TAIL

ByBonnie Goldberg

Tom Santopietro’s career is as colorful as a rainbow, with the appropriate pots of gold at both ends.  He could have been a tennis pro or a lawyer and chose instead to take the yellow brick road directly to theater and films, his first loves.

Leaving his hometown of Waterbury, Connecticut, after graduating from the University of Connecticut School of Law, he decided to try his hand working on Broadway shows as a stage and company manager.  He handled the business side of  show biz full-time for fifteen years when the creative urge to write struck him.

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'Tweet' This!

By David Rosenberg

The Cincinnati Symphony does it. The Palm Beach Opera does it. Soon, New York’s Public Theater may do it. Locally, Goodspeed Musicals is also on the verge of doing it.

The news that some theaters, in a misguided attempt to lure youngsters, are thinking of allowing tweeting during the show will surely be one of the most depressing events in the new year. What will follow? Diaper-changing rows? Areas for pocket-change and bracelet clangers? Can a cellphone section be far behind?

In an e-mail, Goodspeed‘s spokesperson explained it this way: “We hosted a tweet seat event with a special ticket offer  . . . and promoted it through Twitter, Facebook and a few media outlets. . . . We are not roping off seats, we are not allowing tweeting for all performances. . . . We hope to host one night only for ‘tweet team members’ at the beginning of the run of a Norma Terris production. . . . We will only allow the back row seating to be dedicated for that use so as to avoid disrupting the other audience members.”

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