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Over the weekend, Richard Skipper kicked off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hello, Dolly with members of the original Broadway cast In attendence for the special reunion were Nicole Barth Original cast, Paul Berne dancer, Original Company, Carleton Carpenter and Johnny Beecher Sheridan Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker Mary Martin International Company, Wayne Clark first National Company with Carol Channing, John Anthony Gilvey, David Hartman Rudolph and Stage Manager Original Company, Charles Karel Original cast, Jan Laprad Original Company dancer, Joan 'Buttons' Leonard original company, Bob Lydiard Cornelius Hackl, Carol's first Broadway Revival, Lee Roy Reams Cornelius Hackl 1977 tour and Broadway Revival, director 1996 Broadway tour and Revival,Megan Thomas Carol's last tour, Andrea Bell started with Carol Channing, as Ermengarde at the age of seventeen, in Carol's First national tour as well as other productions. Ron Young dancer original cast.BroadwayWorld was there for the special event...

Richard Skipper is kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hello, Dolly with members of the original Broadway castScheduled to appear Nicole Barth Original cast, Paul Berne dancer, Original Company, Carleton Carpenter and Johnny Beecher Sheridan Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker Mary Martin International Company, Wayne Clark first National Company with Carol Channing, John Anthony Gilvey Author, Before the Parade Passes By Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical click here, David Hartman Rudolph and Stage Manager Original Company, Charles Karel Original cast, Jan Laprad Original Company dancer, Joan 'Buttons' Leonard original company, Bob Lydiard Cornelius Hackl, Carol's first Broadway Revival, Lee Roy Reams Cornelius Hackl 1977 tour and Broadway Revival, director 1996 Broadway tour and Revival, Megan Thomas Carol's last tour, Andrea Bell started with Carol Channing, as Ermengarde at the age of seventeen, in Carol's First national tour as well as other productions. Ron Young dancer original cast.

Here's an awesome 1-minute sci-fi CG animated short called The Ball Unleashed. It was directed by Marc Rienzo, and here's the little description that came with the video. 

It's pitcher versus batter as a high powered windup unleashes a sci-fi fastball in this thrilling one minute all CG short created exclusively for The New York Mets.

I might actually watch baseball if it was more like this! No offense to anyone that loves baseball! I like baseball movies, and I enjoy going to live games, but I think watching it on TV is boring as hell. Enjoy the short!

The Ball Unleashed from marc dominic rienzo on Vimeo.

 

Thanks to Gt reader Ron Young for sending this over to us!

The new guys on "Parks and Recreation" seem to be headed in different directions. Ben is getting ever more comfortable in Pawnee, while Chris, sadly, appears headed back to Indianapolis.

But fear not (at least not too much): Rob Lowe isn't in next week's episode [correction: He's not in the next original episode on March 17; the show is in reruns for the next couple weeks], but he's not gone for good. "Indianapolis" ends the run of six episodes that "Parks and Rec" filmed last spring to accommodate Amy Poehler's pregnancy, and at the time, the show hadn't yet locked in Lowe as a regular. The writers have some work to do to get Chris back to Pawnee now that he and Ann have broken up -- and now that Ann actually realizes it -- but he'll be back eventually.

As for the rest of the episode, it was a pretty low-key affair, save for Ann's mini-freakout and subsequent sheepishness at not realizing she and Chris hadn't broken up...