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Eber---your son's picture is on several billboards in downtown San Diego-including one near University Heights,promoting his upcoming concert in Del Mar. His picture is on the side of the city buses as well---I smile en=very time I see them!!!!

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6.27.13 Adam's still in NY! Headed to Florida next! Jun 27, 2013 21:43:12 GMT -5

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This morning, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Defense Of Marriage Act, or DOMA, was unconstitutional as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment.

A number of musicians were quick to respond on Twitter with their support for the ruling in support of gay marriage. More to come, we imagine, as the West Coast wakes up and sees the big news.

Adam Lambert@adamlambertDown w DOMA! Something to be very proud of
this upcoming July 4th. We are making beautiful progress for Equality! #proud9:45 AM - 26 Jun 2013

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@adamlambert it was great meeting you at #bwaybares2013 , and again @bamboo_52 tonight

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eta: Maybe Adam went to this event:

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Adam celebrated at Odyssey Magazine Pride Party tonight! - open bar and free sushi at @bamboo_52

Odyssey party where Adam was tonight:
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Post by 4Ms on Jun 27, 2013 22:19:57 GMT -5

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I find this old stuff fascinating, hope some of you do too.

These are some of the sources I used to piece together the timeline for Adam's Pre-Idol theater performances.

The only original link that still works is the one for the Reprise bio.

Fortunately, I had saved the LA Times and NC Times articles, after the demise of the San Diego News Network.

During his time at MET2, Adam played the title role in “Peter Pan,” Huck Finn in “Big River,” Linus in “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” and the stratosphere-reaching Russian Tenor in “Fiddler on the Roof.” In “The Secret Garden,” he played both the magical young Dickon and the hunchbacked, tormented uncle, Archie. In fact, founding artistic director Alex Urban added the show to the company’s repertoire because of Adam; he knew that the mega-talented 16-year-old could sing that difficult, vocally demanding role.

Original link: www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-05-11/things-to-do/adam-lambert-returns-to-musical-theater-roots
ATop link: atop.proboards.com/post/90987/thread

“He did six shows with me at Mt. Carmel,” Smith recalls, “and he was absolutely fantastic. He had light hair then, but he always liked to dress up and be flamboyant.”

It might surprise the “Glamberts,” Adam’s diehard fans, but not all the shows he did in high school were musicals. He appeared in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” in his sophomore year.

“He played a small but memorable part – the marshal, Willard,” says Smith. “He was very convincing.”

In his junior year, in Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker,” the non-musical inspiration for “Hello, Dolly!” he was Horace Vandergelder. And in his senior year, Adam played the hilarious, ass-headed Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

“Oh my god, he was funny,” Smith recalls with a laugh. “He has great comedic talent, which you haven’t really gotten to see on ‘American Idol.’”

Of course, Adam also displayed his musical talent in high school, in “The Pirates of Penzance,” and as anguished Uncle Archibald in “The Secret Garden.”

“When he sang ‘Lily’s Eyes,’” Smith says of the show’s beautiful memory ballad, “he got a standing ovation every night. I always felt he’d go on to big things. He was a consummate entertainer, even then. He really knows how to bring a character forth in a song. There’s a power and force to his interpretations. That’s one of the reasons he’s so successful at so many different types of songs.

Doug Smith (Adam's MCHS Drama Teacher)

Original link: www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-05-18/things-to-do/adam-lamberts-theater-days-are-fondly-remembered

While in high school, Lambert also did several youth- and adult-cast shows at the Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista, including playing Captain Hook in a youth-cast "Peter Pan" and playing Doody in Moonlight's 2000 adult-cast production of "Grease." Joshua Carr, his director for both productions, remembers Lambert's laserlike attention to detail.

"You could see the focus in his eyes and the drive to be the best he could be," said Carr, the new theater manager/producer at Welk Resort Theatre in Escondido. "He started with me in the youth theater program and immediately displayed commitment and drive even at that young age, and he quickly moved into the leading roles."

Original link: www.nctimes.com/entertainment/music/article_c554fdeb-3b1e-5973-a9bc-f8f4fb416311.html
ATop link: atop.proboards.com/post/90961/thread

Kathy Brombacher, Moonlight's producing artistic director, remembers Lambert's upbeat personality and exceptional voice.

"He is bright, friendly, funny, down to earth and grounded," Brombacher said. "Despite his talent, he doesn't have an inflated head, and he's so articulate and professional in the way he conducts himself."

Brombacher said Lambert's flamboyant stage personality was already developing in his teens, particularly in the role of, what else, the flamboyant pirate Captain Hook.

"He was an adventuresome performer as Captain Hook," she said. "He was always out there for the journey. He wanted to be different and put his own stamp on it -- and he did."

Original link: www.nctimes.com/entertainment/music/article_c554fdeb-3b1e-5973-a9bc-f8f4fb416311.html
ATop link: atop.proboards.com/post/90961/thread

Director/choreography Ray Limon, co-founder of LimonCarr Productions in Tustin, also directed Adam, and never quite forgot him from his days performing at Moonlight Stage Productions.

“He was a great kid when he did ‘Grease,’” recalls Limon. “He always had that voice. One year, when we were doing our annual fundraiser, ‘Broadway at the Moonlight,’ spotlighting all the former Moonlight performers who’d gone on to Equity and Broadway, we added him into the mix. He was the youngest performer we’d ever had in the production. He was just in high school then. And ‘Chess’ was another very adult show he appeared in. It was very impressive for him to be cast. He had the lead song, ‘Pity the Child.’ I’d love to hear him sing that now.”

Limon is about to direct “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at the Welk Theatre in Escondido, for which he recently auditioned 300 actor/singers.

“As talented as they were,” says Limon, “Adam’s talent is way beyond that. He’s like the little cartoon character, Vavoom, the little tiny guy who goes up to the mountains and hits a note and the mountains crumble."

Ray Limon (Director/Choreography )

Original link: www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-05-18/things-to-do/adam-lamberts-theater-days-are-fondly-remembered

Lambert joined the national tour of "Wicked" in 2005 and was the understudy for Fiyero (the male lead) in the L.A. production from February 2007 until it closed last fall.

In an interview last week with the Associated Press, "Wicked" casting agent Bernard Telsey said of Lambert's audition: "He came in and had that amazing voice -- or as I like to say, 'instrument,' because he has this incredible range. I literally remember saying, 'Oh my God, this guy has the highest range.' "

Original link: www.nctimes.com/entertainment/music/article_c554fdeb-3b1e-5973-a9bc-f8f4fb416311.html
ATop link: atop.proboards.com/post/90961/thread

At about 16 (1998), I auditioned for the Starlight Theatre, which is an outdoor theater company down in Balboa Park. It’s a semi-professional thing; we got paid a little bit but it wasn’t union. We would literally have to freeze for planes going over because it’s right in the path of the San Diego airport. So there were little stoplights in the orchestra pit and if a plane was coming, it would go yellow and red and you would freeze. It was crazy.
I was in the ensemble for both “Hello, Dolly!” and “Camelot”.

...then the next summer (1999), I did shows at Moonlight Amphitheatre, in Vista up in North County. I did “The Music Man” and “Grease” and I played Captain Hook in “Peter Pan.”

Original link: latimesblogs.latimes.com/americanidoltracker/2009/08/adam-lambert-the-ultimate-interview-part-1.html
ATop link: atop.proboards.com/post/89500/thread

Summer 1999

"...‘Chess’ was another very adult show he appeared in. It was very impressive for him to be cast. He had the lead song, ‘Pity the Child.’ I’d love to hear him sing that now.”

Ray Limon (Director/Choreography )
Moonlight Stage Productions.

San Diego News Network

Original link: www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-05-18/things-to-do/adam-lamberts-theater-days-are-fondly-remembered

Fall 1999

"... in his senior year, Adam played the hilarious, ass-headed Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Oh my god, he was funny,” Smith recalls with a laugh. “He has great comedic talent, which you haven’t really gotten to see on ‘American Idol.’”
Doug Smith (Adam's MCHS Drama Teacher)

Original link: www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-05-18/things-to-do/adam-lamberts-theater-days-are-fondly-remembered

ADAM LAMBERT (Porter)
A native of San Diego, Adam is thrilled to continue the L.A. experience with his REPRISE! debut. After ten months of performing around the world as Lead Singer for Holland America, he recently appeared as Ambrose Kemper in Hello, Dolly! (Moonlight Stage Productions) and in Evita (CLO South Bay Cities). Other credits include: Doody in Grease, Chess, Music Man, Swingtime G.I. Jive (Moonlight), Lt. Shaw in The Secret Garden (Cabrillo), Frederic in Pirates of Penzance, My Fair Lady (Fullerton CLO), Camelot, Hello, Dolly! (Starlight). Adam has performed solo at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as a Spotlight Awards Finalist (2000), NY’s Lincoln Center, and Qualcomm Stadium performing our National Anthem for the San Diego Chargers. Thanks to Calvin Remsberg, Carol Weiss and Blossom Wagner for your constant wisdom and support.

www.reprise.org/shows/on-the-twentieth-century/cast

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Jun 27, 2013 22:19:57 GMT -5 4Ms said:

OT

I find this old stuff fascinating, hope some of you do too.

These are some of the sources I used to piece together the timeline for Adam's Pre-Idol theater performances.

The only original link that still works is the one for the Reprise bio.

Fortunately, I had saved the LA Times and NC Times articles, after the demise of the San Diego News Network
.

I am so grateful to you for saving and archiving this stuff for all of us. I never think to do that, and later, when I want to find it again, I cannot. Now, tho', I know to look to you, and I know you will have everything I ever need and stuff that I am still discovering. This is an invaluable resource. I bet you have more, and have it better organized than even Adam's mom does.

Thanks a million!

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6.27.13 Adam's still in NY! Headed to Florida next! Jun 27, 2013 22:48:16 GMT -5

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Post by Q3 on Jun 27, 2013 22:48:16 GMT -5

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Jun 27, 2013 21:34:43 GMT -5 lorraine said:

Eber---your son's picture is on several billboards in downtown San Diego-including one near University Heights,promoting his upcoming concert in Del Mar. His picture is on the side of the city buses as well---I smile en=very time I see them!!!!

And I saw one last night off the 78 in Vista. Very cool. AdamSing

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6.27.13 Adam's still in NY! Headed to Florida next! Jun 27, 2013 23:16:25 GMT -5

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Jun 27, 2013 22:43:07 GMT -5 cassie said:

Jun 27, 2013 22:19:57 GMT -5 4Ms said:

OT

I find this old stuff fascinating, hope some of you do too.

These are some of the sources I used to piece together the timeline for Adam's Pre-Idol theater performances.

The only original link that still works is the one for the Reprise bio.

Fortunately, I had saved the LA Times and NC Times articles, after the demise of the San Diego News Network
.

I am so grateful to you for saving and archiving this stuff for all of us. I never think to do that, and later, when I want to find it again, I cannot. Now, tho', I know to look to you, and I know you will have everything I ever need and stuff that I am still discovering. This is an invaluable resource. I bet you have more, and have it better organized than even Adam's mom does.

Thanks a million!

Thanks for the kind words, but I happen to know you're no slouch in the Adam info department.

You know I always save your Adam essays.

Anyway, I was hoping you'd be around today.

I thought you might find this little bio of the author of the SDNN articles interesting.

About the author:
www.sdcriticscircle.org/mainpages/members.htm

Pat Launer, secretary for the Critics Circle, attended her first theater production in utero. Fortunately, growing up in New York, she was readily able to feed her theatergoing habit. When she moved to San Diego in 1979, she started Sign of the Times, the San Diego Theatre of the Deaf. Pat earned her Ph.D. in Communication Arts and Sciences from the City University of New York, and taught at San Diego State University for 24 years, where she was named Most Influential Faculty seven times. She won an Emmy Award for “Center Stage,” the theater variety show she created, wrote and hosted on KPBS-TV. She garnered two Emmy nominations for the Patté Awards for Theater Excellence, which she created, produced and hosted for 13 years. Her theater documentaries have won local and national awards. In 2005, the Women’s International Center named her a Living Legacy. For more than 25 years, she’s been San Diego’s only regularly broadcast theater critic. Her reviews air on KSDS-FM; she also writes regularly for patch.com and San Diego Metro magazine. Her reviews (dating back to 1990) can be found at www.patteproductions.com

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6.27.13 Adam's still in NY! Headed to Florida next! Jun 27, 2013 23:41:47 GMT -5

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Post by cassie on Jun 27, 2013 23:41:47 GMT -5

Jun 27, 2013 23:16:25 GMT -5 4Ms said:

Jun 27, 2013 22:43:07 GMT -5 cassie said:

I am so grateful to you for saving and archiving this stuff for all of us. I never think to do that, and later, when I want to find it again, I cannot. Now, tho', I know to look to you, and I know you will have everything I ever need and stuff that I am still discovering. This is an invaluable resource. I bet you have more, and have it better organized than even Adam's mom does.

Thanks a million!

Thanks for the kind words, but I happen to know you're no slouch in the Adam info department.

You know I always save your Adam essays.

Anyway, I was hoping you'd be around today.

I thought you might find this little bio of the author of the SDNN articles interesting.

About the author:
www.sdcriticscircle.org/mainpages/members.htm

Pat Launer, secretary for the Critics Circle, attended her first theater production in utero. Fortunately, growing up in New York, she was readily able to feed her theatergoing habit. When she moved to San Diego in 1979, she started Sign of the Times, the San Diego Theatre of the Deaf. Pat earned her Ph.D. in Communication Arts and Sciences from the City University of New York, and taught at San Diego State University for 24 years, where she was named Most Influential Faculty seven times. She won an Emmy Award for “Center Stage,” the theater variety show she created, wrote and hosted on KPBS-TV. She garnered two Emmy nominations for the Patté Awards for Theater Excellence, which she created, produced and hosted for 13 years. Her theater documentaries have won local and national awards. In 2005, the Women’s International Center named her a Living Legacy. For more than 25 years, she’s been San Diego’s only regularly broadcast theater critic. Her reviews air on KSDS-FM; she also writes regularly for patch.com and San Diego Metro magazine. Her reviews (dating back to 1990) can be found at www.patteproductions.com

Cool! Small world. thanks for sharing.

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