Let's Paint The Town Red!

I love social engagements with travelers visiting Seattle on business or local friends.  Perhaps you are a visitor to Seattle who'd like to see the sights, or a local looking for a great way to spend a day.  Maybe dining out at a fine restaurant and catching the latest exhibit at Seattle's Art Museum or enjoying an evening of fabulous food and outstanding music at Jazz Alley is right up your alley, no pun intended.  Why go out alone, when it's always exciting to have a sophisticated, mature seductress on your arm to accompany you with enthusiasm and ardor to any number of interesting outings! 

As an avid classical music lover may I suggest a Seattle Symphony concert.   Perhaps you've been seeking a knowledgeable companion who shares your musical proclivities.   Perhaps you've never understood what could possibly be interesting about classical music.  I'll hold your hand throughout the entire 'ordeal' and give you good reason to smile.  Whether you love the symphony or not, I promise you'll enjoy a symphonic seduction to remember!

So, you've got some free time, a lovely lady in mind, and aren't sure what to do?  Here are a few varied suggestions for this Fall that I will keep updated for opportunities within and beyond the classical venue.

August -

ACT, A Contemporary Theatre presents In The Next Room, or the vibrator play

A stimulating comedy sure to create a buzz.  Ranging from the tender to the farcical, this smart comedy ponders marriage and intimacy, and how electricity came along to fuse them.

September -

Chris Botti at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery

Pink Martini at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery

Opening Night Concert & Gala w/Beethoven, Gershwin, and Ravel's Bolero - Seattle Symphony

Ludovic Morlot takes the stage in his first concert as Music Director in a program that nods to his French roots, and features a Seattle favorite: star cellist Joshua Roman. Welcome the Maestro with us. Special-purchase Gala tickets including cocktails, dinner, dancing and champagne intermission are available.

October -

The Atomic Bombshells Burlesque at Triple Door

The Atomic Bombshells are gearing up for our Future Space themed show! Our costume designers are working like androids to make this a spectacle of sci-fi costume splendor beyond even Barbarella (if you can imagine that, and we're sure you can!).

Rick Steves and the Cascade Symphony - EUROPE, a symphonic journey.

Emerald City Blues Festival  -  An amazing combination of dance instruction and great music.

For the 7th year running,  the most popular instructors we've ever had, dance legends Steven and Virginie, to match our star-studded staff, and dance to music of Solomon Douglas and Brother Yusef.

Cello Divas - Eight cellists and a soprano? That limelight better be pretty big. Chamber music group Simple Measures hosts a performance of Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5 by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Pilobolus, Dance Company, UW World Series

Acrobatics liquefied into poetry.These fan-favorites return to Seattle to delight audiences with their unique brand of dance.

Carmen - Seattle Opera

Bizet’s sexy thriller about a soldier’s ill-fated obsession with the ultimate femme fatale is arguably the world’s most popular opera. Featuring truly brilliant orchestration, an unrivaled procession of hit tunes, and a stage full of gypsies, smugglers, factory girls, and “tor-ee-a-dors,” Carmen packs all the sizzle of Spanish culture into an irresistible theatrical event. 

The Lord of the Rings with the Munich Symphony - Watch Frodo start his quest to save Middle-earth on the big screen as the Munich Symphony plays the Oscar-winning score to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

SEDUCTION - Be seduced at the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival's official Halloween Party!

 

November -

Earshot Jazz presents Keith Jarrett

"Very simply, this is jazz at its finest," says the Los Angeles Times. The International Herald-Tribune adds, "The trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette is about as good as jazz gets." This event is presented by Earshot Jazz, Seattle's nonprofit music, arts and service organization formed in 1984 to support jazz in the community.

Harvest Wine Tour and Cork Games

Head to the Olympic Peninsula where in between sips of new wine releases or perhaps a "Hot Spirited Apple Wine Toddy" you can try your hand at the "bung hole toss" or a host of other unique "cork games".

ACT, A Contemporary Theatre presents Double Indemnity

A nail-biting take on the famous novel probes the shadowy human soul.  Lust, intrigue, and cliffhanging twists amp up this much-loved crime tale, which Billy Wilder also adapted for his classic noir film.

Cool Yule - Seattle Men's Chorus
What would November and December be without “Seattle’s Other Holiday Tradition?” Plan now to bring your neighbors and friends to the unforgettable experience that is SEATTLE MEN'S CHORUS’ annual holiday musical extravaganza. This year a live swing band, complete with winds and brass, will complement a program filled with holiday favorites.

Sophie Milman at Jazz Alley
International Vocal Jazz Sensation Touring in Support of her New Release "In The Moonlight"

Café Nordo: 'To Savor Tomorrow'                                                                                             

A dinner-theater phenomenon!  "To Savor Tomorrow" focuses on futuristic food in sync with the 1962 World's Fair's upbeat vision of technology to come. It is plated as a Cold War spy vs. spy spoof, an absurd farce with dashes of James Bond and Alfred Hitchcock. 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2016673058_nordo06.html

Babeland presents
Tristan Taormino's Expert Guide to the G-Spot and Female Ejaculation.  A subject of special interest to me, and hopefully, you!

Williamette Valley Wineries - Wine Country Thanksgiving

Kick off the holiday season with this unforgettable wine tasting weekend in the Willamette Valley! More than 160 wineries and tasting rooms will open their doors for special tastings, food pairings, live music & more.  I do love a good Pinot!

Town Hall Concerts
Joshua Roman, former principal cellist with the Seattle Symphony, performs all six Bach Cello Suites.

December/January 
Pink Martini Holiday Show with the Seattle Symphony
Hosted at The Paramount Theater.  “All of us in Pink Martini have studied different languages as well as different styles of music from different parts of the world. So inevitably, our repertoire is wildly diverse,” says Lauderdale. “At one moment, you feel like you’re in the middle of a samba parade in Rio de Janeiro, and in the next moment, you’re in a French music hall of the 1930s or a palazzo in Napoli. It’s a bit like an urban musical travelogue. We’re very much an American band, but we spend a lot of time abroad … and therefore have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America … the America which remains the most heterogeneously populated country in the world … comprised of people of every country, every language, every religion.”

Land of the Sweets - The Burlesque Nutcracker at the Triple Door

Experience what’s made Seattle’s “audiences for these sold-out shows…go wild” (Seattle Times) and discover what the discriminating burlesque aficionado has come to expect from a Verlaine & McCann production! Land of the Sweets turns the winter-time event you’ve dreaded since childhood into an unpretentious smash-up of classical dance and vintage bump at the hepist holiday party since the end of prohibition.  

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - Seattle Symphony

Welcome 2012 with Seattle Symphony! Start your evening with Beethoven’s mighty Ninth Symphony — featuring his famous “Ode to Joy” finale. Then, hail the New Year with a post-concert countdown and celebration.  Or enjoy the final days of 2011 in concert with Beethoven's Ninth December 28-30.

Your day or evening out is something special - let me know what you desire, and I'll take care of the rest.  The possibilities are only limited by our imaginations.  Our time together will be unforgettable! 

And now, would you help me with my zipper. please?