From our final dress rehearsal of "A Passing Wind," at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts:
(Costumes: Anna Frangiosa, Photography: Sandy Flint)
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| The company of "A Passing Wind": Jered McLenigan (Satie), Ian Bedford (Henri Oller), Maureen Torsney-Weir (Bernhardt), Laura Catlaw (Angèle Thibodeau) and Leah Walton (Elizabeth Pujol). |
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| "Baking our bread daily, making our daily bread," Leah Walton as Elizabeth Pujol and Damon Kirsche as Joseph Pujol |
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| Joseph Pujol (Damon Kirsche) debuts his legendary act for patrons of the Moulin Rouge. |
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| Joseph (Damon Kirsche) and Elizabeth (Leah Walton) backstage. |
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| Pujol (Damon Kirsche) and Oller (Ian Beford) interrupt Angèle's new act "La Femme Pétomane." |
And a few shots of an earlier dress rehearsal:
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The Moulin Rouge salutes France at the outbreak of WWI:
Ian Bedford as Henri Oller, Damon Kirsche as Joseph Pujol, Laura Catlaw as Angèle Thibodeau. |
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Joseph Pujol, AKA "Le Petomane" (Damon Kirsche) blasts Angèle (Laura Catlaw),
who stands in reluctantly as a German soldier. |
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| Sarah Bernhardt (Maureen Torsney-Weir) explains the ephemeral yet eternal beauty of Theatre to Pujol (Damon Kirsche): "Life begets life, chemistry begets chemistry, it's only by spending oneself that one becomes rich." |
