About Duante Beddingfield

The Duante Beddingfield is a nocturnal mammal found at watering holes throughout the Dayton region. Its diet consists of vodka and cheese, and it is noted for its hypnotic scent and brightly colored plumage, which it displays as part of courtship. It has two short, fixed fangs in the front of the mouth which channel venom into the prey like hypodermic needles. It can be easily irritated by pickles, death metal, and knock-knock jokes.

Victoria Theatre Association Presents PSY + TICKET CONTEST

April 4, 2013 by Duante Beddingfield

The Victoria Theatre Association invites you to tumble down the dark corridors of the human psyche on April 12 and 13 when it presents PSY, a wild commingling of acrobatics and psychology by the same company that brought last season’s successful Traces. (NOTE: We’ll stop here and reiterate that this article is not about Psy, the Korean “Gangnam Style” superstar, nor will he be performing in Dayton this month.) Written and staged by Shana Carroll (who also staged the Cirque du Soleil performance at the 2012 Academy Awards), PSY features an 11-member cast displaying inspired acts … [Read more...]

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Green Day’s American Idiot comes to Dayton + TICKET CONTEST

March 8, 2013 by Duante Beddingfield

The Victoria Theatre Association continues to expand its boundaries in bringing the best of Broadway to Dayton, and will provide a musical theatre experience of a different kind with Green Day's rock opera American Idiot, playing at the Victoria Theatre March 12 - 14. A story very much of this era, American Idiot is the tale of three young men who've been friends all their lives. The story finds them on the brink of adulthood, and soon they'll have to decide whether they'll strike out into the world to follow their hearts or take an easier path and remain in the comfort of the suburbs. The … [Read more...]

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Family Matters – The Addams Family musical scares up laughs at the Schuster

March 6, 2013 by Duante Beddingfield

They say you can never go home again, but that’s not always true. From March 5 - 10, people in the Dayton area can return to one of everyone’s favorite childhood haunts, Addams Manor, as the hit Broadway musical The Addams Family takes up residence at the Schuster Center. And whether you grew up with their New Yorker cartoons, the original 1960s sitcom, the ‘90s films, or any of the various animated and live-action spinoffs over the decades, you know that once you’ve met these characters, they’re always a part of you. A beloved staple of American pop culture, the Addams Family … [Read more...]

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Watch Casablanca with Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra

February 11, 2013 by Duante Beddingfield

This Valentine's Day, the Dayton Philharmonic will offer a very special treat when it presents one of cinema's greatest love stories, Casablanca, with the orchestra playing the score live on stage at the Schuster Center at 8 p.m. "We've done shows like this before, where we've played the score live while a classic film showed," said Dayton Philharmonic conductor Neal Gittleman, "and when we were looking at options for this season, Casablanca came up. And here we have St. Valentine's Day. And while Casablanca doesn't have a happy ending, it's one of the great screen romances." A tragic, … [Read more...]

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Cityfolk Celebrates Valentine’s Day with Grace + TICKET CONTEST

February 7, 2013 by Duante Beddingfield

Obligatory pun aside, at Gilly's (132 S. Jefferson St.) on Thursday, February 14 at 8pm, Cityfolk presents the current wunderkind of the jazz world, saxophonist/vocalist Grace Kelly. Kelly, who turns 21 this spring, has swept jazz by storm over the last decade, winning countless honors and quickly racking up recordings. Her eighth album, Grace Kelly Live at Scullers, was released less than a month ago, and the starry list of notables she's recorded and performed with includes Wynton Marsalis, Lee Konitz, Dave Brubeck, Harry Connick, Jr., Esperanza Spalding, David Sanborn, Joey DeFrancesco, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment Tagged With: Cityfolk, Gilly's, Grace Kelly

The Intergalactic Nemesis Bring Comics to Life at the Victoria Theatre + TICKET CONTEST

January 28, 2013 by Duante Beddingfield

On Friday, February 1, the savvy, witty graphic novels of the present day collide - onstage! - with the bombastic camp of 1930's radio serials as the Victoria Theatre Association presents The Intergalactic Nemesis: Target Earth, a hilarious stage performance that brings the comics to life. Set in 1933, Nemesis unspools the globe-trotting saga of an award-winning reporter, her research assistant, and a mysterious librarian as they travel around the world and, then, the universe on a quest to defeat the Zygonians - evil, alien sludge monsters that are out to destroy humankind. Inspired by … [Read more...]

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Fantasy will come to life at the Victoria Theatre with Shrek: The Musical

January 12, 2013 by Duante Beddingfield

Big, Bright Beautiful World with Perry Sook as Shrek. Shrek The Musical. Photo by LvR /
Paparazzi By Appointment

An unusual fairy tale featuring some of the usual suspects, "Shrek: The Musical" follows the journey of its title character, a smelly green ogre who's far from the dashing princes the genre has brought us to expect. During a quest to rescue sassy princess Fiona, he takes on his inevitable sidekick--a wisecracking donkey--and teams up with him to defeat an evil prince with anger issues, encountering scores of familiar storybook characters along the way. The property has a history reaching all the way back to 1990 and William Steig's children's book Shrek! which was transformed into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: On Stage Dayton Previews Tagged With: Christian Marriner, Courtney Daniels, Jeremy Gaston, Perry Sook, shrek the musical, Shrek The Musical Article, Tiffani Robbins, Victoria Theatre, Whitney Winfield

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Comes To Dayton

April 18, 2012 by Duante Beddingfield

Dayton is in for a world-class performance when Cityfolk and the Victoria Theatre Association bring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis to the Schuster Center on Wednesday, April 25. A bright, briliant big band boasting 15 of the most talented and accomplished players in modern jazz, the JLCO will present an evening of sparking original works and familiar gems. Saxophonist Ted Nash will be returning to Dayton for the first time since the late 1980s, when he led a combo booking at the old Nite Owl bar in the Oregon District (where Blind Bob’s currently … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Dayton Music, The Featured Articles

Get your SOUL on at CityFolk with Bettye LaVette

June 30, 2010 by Duante Beddingfield

Bettye LaVette is not thinking about her next album. And when she decides to change that, she won't be wasting any time. “I'm not thinking about that yet,” said the soul legend, who will perform Friday night on the NewPage Main Stage at the 2010 Cityfolk Festival, held at RiverScape MetroPark. “It could be a while, and when I do it, it'll probably be like my others—we pull some stuff together in four days, get into the studio for a couple of days, and get done with it. I love to perform, but I do not like to record. It amazes me when people say, 'Oh, I've been working on this album … [Read more...]

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