Tricia Rose Burt

Speaker. Storyteller. Coach.

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A Very Funny Woman Gets Serious

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Giving much needed advice to teenage girls

I am a huge fan of Amy Poehler’s. Her comedy is very smart and funny — never cruel or mean — and she always makes a serious point, while cracking you up. This past week, she released a video on her Smart Girls channel, where she addresses questions poised by teenagers. Her response to a young woman named Millie about watching images on the Internet works for all of us.

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The Big Chill Revisited

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Fantastic use of music

Last night I was driving home very late from a fabulous Moth Mainstage at the Somerville Theater near Boston. There are few things better than a good story well told and the evening was full of them.  Driving home, I played the radio very loud to keep myself awake, singing badly along. Then a classic blared: The Rolling Stones, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” I immediately thought of the funeral scene from The Big Chill.

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Making Something Your Own

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The Divine Miss M

Different artists can interpret the same piece of work in vastly different ways. Say for instance Bette Midler’s fabulous torch song version of “Do You Want to Dance” (featured in my show How to Draw a Nekkid Man, formerly I Will Be Good) versus the Beach Boys original upbeat dance version. Or The Beatles version of “Till There Was You” versus the Broadway version sung by Barbara Cook and the film version sung by Shirley Jones (before The Partridge Family) written by Meredith Willson for The Music Man (which, by the way, he wrote at 55).

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