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Gruber talks with some students for MLive! (X) Published Nov. 25, 2011

"Michael Gruber, star of Western Michigan University's 'Late Night Broadway,' shares talents and tips with students"

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In a cabaret setting at the Williams Theatre, graduating seniors in the WMU theater program will present the routines they hope will get them gigs at future auditions. Then, Gruber will do a set of standards and lesser-known songs — a few touching ballads, but most of them humorous — about love: “Falling out of love, falling into love, how love confuses us, tortures us; it’s contagious, it’s something that human beings seek out.”

One can almost replace “love” in that sentence with “a job,” except jobs aren’t very contagious these days. Gruber will teach a bit about falling into a job when he coaches the seniors the week before the show.

“I’ll impart what I’ve learned over the 23 years of my career, give back something that great directors and teachers have taught me,” he said from his home in Minneapolis, Minn.

To Broadway and back

Gruber was on Broadway in the original company of “Miss Saigon,” “Kiss Me Kate,” “Cats” and “A Chorus Line,” and has done regional theater around the country. He moved from New York to the Midwest and changed his career course to do more writing, teaching and smaller theater work that he finds rewarding.

“There are so many paths” to a career in performing arts, he said. “There really is no formula. A lot of it is luck, a lot of it is timing, a lot of it is your contacts. If the door is closed in one area, figure out how to be crea-tive in getting around it or finding a new way in.”

Theater has been struggling in the recession, he said. The movie industry stays strong, with its wider audience base, he said, “but I think theater, because it’s more expensive. ... We’re the first ones to get hit when the economy is bad,” he said.

“Live theater is expensive. It’s expensive to produce; ticket prices are high. On the other hand, people love to be entertained when there’s a crisis, to escape.”

His advice to graduates: “Be creative.”

While performance students spend years working on their craft, that isn’t all it takes to succeed, Gruber said.

“I think what young performers miss coming out of school is that you also have to be creative about how to market yourself, how to make contacts, how to present yourself ... all that stuff.”

Gruber believes there’s also too much focus on Broadway as the destination for stage performers.

“Life experience is what we’re looking for, because we’re looking for a long career in the art. New York is only one-half of 1 percent of the amount of work available in this country,” he said. “And it’s not always the best and most satisfying work there, either.”

Traveling for the work

Gruber has learned to occasionally reinvent himself.

“I’ve done 10 shows in New York,” he said, “but I’ve also done a lot of small theater all across the country. I just work because I love to work, so I go wherever the work is offered.”

He remembered a rewarding time at Saugatuck’s Mason Street Warehouse in the cast of “What A Glorious Feeling” in 2005. It was the debut of a new musical, and he got to discover the beauty of Lake Michigan in the summer.

“It was like a summer vacation,” he said. “We didn’t get paid very much, but the experience was so rich and fun. It pays off.”

Connections lead to more work. At Mason Street, he met the writer of the show’s book, Jay Berkow. On the faculty of WMU’s theater department, Berkow is directing “Late Night Broadway.”

Gruber is looking forward to working with WMU students.

“Their passion (rubs) off on me and give me a kick of adrenalin,” he said. “I’m excited to see what they do.”

He kept catching himself calling the students “kids,” and apologized, adding that he just turned 47.

“They’re young adults,” he corrected himself, noting they are eager to make the step from school to stage. That eagerness will make for a great evening, Gruber hopes.

“You get some young, fresh energy, and then you get an old fart,” he said, laughing.

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Graduate Recital: Yoseph Henry, Jazz Voice

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holing up in the top of the library for the next two hours in an attempt to make myself write the conference abstract I need to write

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it’s not fucking cute to be massively and at this point intentionally uninformed about major fucking world events (aka GENOCIDE happening in real time). there was a walkout during class on Wednesday in support of freeing Palestine, to demand a ceasefire, to demand our university stop financially supporting Israel, and to protest at the president’s office to get him to listen after denying all requests to meet with student orgs, and our GSI explicitly explained to the class as a whole what the walkout was for— and still afterwards a group of people were going “uhhhh…. so like what’s this walkout for?” “something about ceasefire?” “haha I have like no idea what all of that’s all about.” like what the fuck is wrong with you? you think it’s cute and funny that you’re completely ignorant to the fact that our government is directly aiding ethnic cleansing? Like?? I’m sorry, but how are you, an adult with access to the internet and social media on an enormous college campus full of resources, uninformed at this point for any reason other than you are just straight up ignoring shit or don’t care???

And fuck this university for doing its performative “land acknowledgments” before every remark as a cheap means of “apologizing” to the Native American people whose land it resides on while absolutely refusing to acknowledge its students begging for it to stop funding genocide. They can insist that they have a “focus on decolonizing our future” all they want but their complete inaction and refusal to listen to students in this crisis shows that they don’t fucking care at all about what they say they care about. of course. it’s not surprising, just an absurd level of hypocrisy. Their response to the “heightened tensions” was to fucking increase the amount of cops on campus btw, as per their latest email.

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US rice exports to Haiti, which account for the bulk of supplies of the country’s key food staple, contain unhealthy levels of arsenic and cadmium, heavy metals that can increase risks of cancer and heart disease, according to a recent study by the University of Michigan.

Haiti is among America’s top buyers of rice, alongside Mexico and Japan, and cheap imports are more affordable than local options in the Caribbean nation, the poorest state in the western hemisphere.

According to the study, average arsenic and cadmium concentrations were nearly twice as high in imported rice compared to the Haitian-grown product, with some imported samples exceeding international limits.

Nearly all imported rice samples exceeded the US Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation for children’s consumption. [...]

The study, which attributed the dominance of imported rice to lower import tariffs and long-term contracts signed during [US-supported] political turmoil in the late 1980s and 1990s, said Haiti imports nearly 90 per cent of its rice, almost exclusively from the US.[...]

When researchers ran the study in 2020, they found that Haitians on average consumed 85kg of rice per year, compared to 12kg in the US

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