LUA INTERVIEWED

LUA WAS INTERVIEWED AT THE HARVEY MILK CENTER FOR THE ARTS, SAN FRANCISCO, BY SOCIETY CABARET’S PAULA HEITMAN ON 7/19/19.

LUA WAS INTERVIEWED AT THE HARVEY MILK CENTER FOR THE ARTS, SAN FRANCISCO, BY SOCIETY CABARET’S PAULA HEITMAN ON 7/19/19.

 

The interview and short set last over an hour and cover many subjects. CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO CONNECT TO THE VIDEO. VIDEOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER NELSON. PIANO: JASON MARTINEAU

Here’s a subject and time guide

0-4:15 minutes: Host Paula Heitman introduces the event and interview guest Lua Hadar

4:15-6:11 Paula’s microphone issue is resolved

6:11 How did you begin in music? I talk about my musician father, my mother, my school years, college, acting school in NYC, getting out into the world, first headshots

13:00 Action and challenge; why I wish I’d taken the wine offered by Director Milos Forman at my callback for the film “Hair.”

15:35 Off-Off Broadway, singing lessons, how I veered off to opera, my understated Met Opera coach; running away from opera - to Italy. How I met Bob Terrible. How I realized I could make my own art.

22:00 How I got to San Francisco

23:00 How I got into teaching teachers how to deliver curriculum through the arts. A science kit inspires an opera.

27:00 Becoming a Studio Teacher for professional youth.

30:00 Entering the world of San Francisco Cabaret.Thick Tuesdays and schlepping the piano down the elevator. Martuni’s Song of the Month Club, The Purple Onion and The Kitchenettes.

37:00 Making it your own. “You gotta get a style, kid.” What is a style? Owning “cosmopolitan.”

41:00 Working with Jason Martineau. Twist happens. Advice from jazz legend Frank Jackson. Making the first Twist CD, and the Bangkok International Arts Festival. My favorite cabaret story: How I blew out the lights in my deluxe Bangkok suite.

49:00 Considering ourselves worthy. Making the concert film “Like A Bridge.” Difference between recording with separation booths or in a “hot mix.” Enter Lawrence Jordan: “Just get me five cameras.” Learning everything the hard way. What are “sync rights”? 

57:00 Unworthy to write songs, then Anger was greater than Fear. Writing and making the music video “Our Common Humanity.” Inspiration on the beach, and how a new song’s lyrics got their tune.

1:00:53 Facing challenges: the dauntless founders of Society Cabaret. Audience comment on twisting La Vie en Rose into a cha-cha. I brag about Jason Martineau, who helps me to bring out into the world what is inside my head.

1:04:00 to the end: Three songs performed with Jason at the piano: All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern), San Francisco (Maxime LeForestier) and September Song (Kurt Weill).