The Sound of Music

   An all new production of the Sound of Music is heading to Boston! The show features music from Richard Rogers and promises to provide audiences with more than a few "favorite things!" You can catch the show at the Boch Center from May 1st through the 13th. The Red Balloon is pleased to offer an exclusive discount.

Stomp: Exclusive offer

The Color Purple: Boch Center 2017

Read all about the theatrical performances coming to the Boch Center this fall here on The Red Balloon! The first featured is The Color Purple.

Looking forward to all of the theatrical performances coming to the Boch Center this fall...especially The Color Purple at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre! This fall, immerse yourself in The Color Purple, on stage from November 21st through December 3rd in Boston historic theater district.

USA Today raves, "You'll emerge uplifted and wiping tears from your eyes!"

This fall, you are invited to The Color Purple, on stage from November 21st through December 3rd in Boston historic theater district. For an exclusive discount, see below:

Use discount code PURPLE at bochcenter.org/thecolorpurple when purchasing tickets for an exclusive 25% off discount on select performances.


For more information visit:
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Man of the Year 2016

The Red Balloon is posting a favorite photo from this past Friday night's Hasty Pudding 50th Man of the Year Celebration: seriously, women everyone are asking, "Who wouldn't want to be that Pudding Pot?"

It was an honor to be part of a tradition with the utmost artistic integrity, including that one part when Joseph Gordon-Levitt took his pants off.

This year Joseph Gordon-Levitt became the 50th Hasty Pudding Man of the Year joining the ranks of Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Walken, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Robert Downey Jr. and Billy Crystal, all of whom have their very own Hasty Pudding Pot. The story of how the Man of the Year title started comes from the very first man of the year, Bob Hope, who contacted the Hasty Pudding Theatre as he knew they had only a Woman of the Year distinction at the time. He told them he had the perfect candidate for Man of the Year: Himself! And so the rest is history. Today the tradition continues as Joseph Gordon-Levitt received his latest title with honor! Here's to the Man of the Year!

Love Letters

"I feel most alive when I'm holed up in some corner, writing things down. I pick up a pen, and almost immediately everything seems to take shape around me. I love to write. I love writing my parents because then I become the ideal son. I love writing essays for English, because then I am for a short while a true scholar. I love writing letters to the newspaper, notes to friends, Christmas cards, anything where I have to put down words. I love writing you. You most of all. I always have. I feel like a true lover when I'm writing you. This letter, which I'm writing with my own hand, with my own pen, in my own penmanship, comes from me and no one else, and is a present of myself to you. It's not typewritten, though I've learned how to type. There's no copy of it, though I suppose I could use a carbon. And it's not a telephone call, which is dead as soon as it is over. No, this is just me, me the way I write, the way my writing is, the way I want to be to you, giving myself to you across a distance, not keeping or retaining any part of it for myself, giving this piece of myself to you totally, and you can tear me up and throw me out, or keep me, and read me today, tomorrow, any time you want until you die."
                                                                                           ~Andy, (read by Ryan O'Neal)

The above is among one of the Red Balloon's favorite quotes from last evening's opening night performance of Love Letters in Boston.

If you have the opportunity to see Love Letters in person, the performances by Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw are exceptional. The chemistry between the pair is unseen in between actors and actresses in most modern day films. The electricity between them leaps off the stage. Interestingly enough, the two never actually look at one another. Sitting side by side, reading letter after letter, the two speaks volumes without exchanging so much as a glance in the other's direction. What is so powerful is both the performances by the pair and the script, A.R. Gurney's everlasting romance, each line written so poetically. Experience the poetry for yourself, just in time for Valentine's Day!

Love Letters is playing at the Boston Shubert Theater through February 7th.

                         

Sights & Sounds: Part Seven

Love Letters

Tonight is opening night of Love Letters in Boston. 

A.R. Gurney's play Love Letters was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw are reunited on stage tonight. The pair originally starred in Love Story 45 years ago! The Red Balloon will be present for opening night of Love Letters, which runs through February 7th at Boston's Shubert Theatre.



The Boston Harbor Hotel 

The Boston Harbor Hotel's ice skating rink is now open. So, be sure to lace up those skates and take a spin on the ice under the arch (that has a ring to it)!

Hasty Pudding's Man of the Year 

Hasty Pudding, part of Harvard University, has the distinction of being the oldest theater company in the nation. Hasty Pudding's Man of the Year is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The Red Balloon will in attendance for the roast and press conference. Bobby Fitzpatrick, President of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals stated, "No emoji can express how how excited we are about having Joseph Gordon-Levitt as our 50th Man of the Year...We anxiously await Mr. Gordon-Levitt's arrival, as he begins his slow journey to the Hasty Pudding Theatricals on a small rope from LA to Cambridge." So, there you have it, the Sights & Sounds are small in quantity but large in quality! 

Stay tuned to The Red Balloon for all things Boston!