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When all is said and done this is a grand recording of "A Chorus Line " and it can hold its' head up high next to the revered original and all I can say to the new "Line" is. WELCOME (www.amazon.com....84-7533728)
When all is said and done this is a grand recording of "A Chorus Line " and it can hold its' head up high next to the revered original and all I can say to the new "Line" is. WELCOME. (www.amazon.com....02-7555219)
There may be no original Broadway cast recording more iconic than 1970's Company , with its funky organ sound and Elaine Stritch 's not-quite-there high notes, but the December 2006 Broadway revival makes its own mark. For Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's piece about a single man observing the benefits and follies of marriage, director John Doyle borrows the same controversial concept he used for his 2005 Sweeney Todd the actors playing instruments on stage (now referred to in many circles as "Doyle-izing," and not always with affection and delight). But when you're listening to a cast recording, as Bobby would say: What do you get? For one thing, you'll have to adjust to some different sounds created by Doyle and his music supervisor, Mary-Mitchell Campbell. It's a benefit in "Side by Side by Side," which begins with a jazzy double-bass line. It's a drawback in "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," in which the trio's doo-doots are replaced by their saxophone lines. You also get "Marry Me a Little," cut from the original show but by now very familiar and welcome, as well as a lot of the contextual dialogue before, between, and even within number (www.amazon.com....84-7533728)
Sunday in the Park with George , the 1984 musical receiving its first major Broadway revival under the auspices of The Roundabout Theatre Company, labors mightily to fit the bill, and its intentions are strictly honorable. If it comes up short, the result is still, as you may have already guessed, interesting. There is a lot to like and still more to admire about the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine -penned work, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama at the time of its premiere and has endured as a favorite of repertory companies and college theater departments in the years to follow. Itâs reappearance on Broadway after an absence of more than two decades may even come as welcome relief to musical theater audiences who have had their fill of the cotton candy theyâve been force-fed since last summer ; so far, the seasonâs three new musical offerings (if they can be called ânewâ) have been Xanadu , Young Frankenstein and Grease ! Those hungering for a tuner offering actual substance need look no further than Studio 54 , where the first-rate production of Sunday in the Park with George helmed by 32-year-old British wunderkind Sam Buntrock opens toda (eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/)
Peters is the type of performer who has always seemed more comfortable with personality-driven comedy than in character-driven drama â but she doesnât have the brash element of showmanship that her predecessor brought to the part. Ms. Petersâ insouciant Broadway-baby spark, while entirely at odds with the tone of the show in which it was featured, provided the original Sunday with its only real flashes of energy; paradoxically, with a better actress in the role, the character seems less engaging than she was before. These considerations aside, Russell and Evans do complement each other in the way that the roleâs originators â who often seemed to be performing in two very different shows â didnât quite manage. They donât really have any more chemistry than Patinkin and Peters did, but they do a better job of fleshing out their roles, and bring something more specific to the flimsy, rather generic psychology on which their character arcs are based. The supporting cast, which includes Michael Cumpsty, Jessica Molaskey, Mary Beth Peil and Alexander Gemignani, bring some welcome flourishes of originality to the cardboard characters they are playing, but are reigned in by the limitations of their rol (eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/)
Startedon Wed Aug 23 at 10:57:43 PDT 2000 . SOCRATESjoined . SOCRATES Goodafternoon, friends! Welcome to our Dialogue in Cyberspace. Believe me,this is a lot more comfortable than it was in my beloved Athens , wherewe stood around barefooted, swatting away the flies and fending off thevendors, while we tried to examine our lives. adultedADM Hail,Socrates! adultedADM Socrates,have you been sharing your wisdom at many recent events? SOCRATES Ioften stood around for hours in the Agora (Athenian marketplace and publicsquare) before a good dialogue started. adultedADM Haveyou waited in a cyber-Agora before? SOCRATES Asyou see in the photo of me, I've been hanging around 42nd Street and Broadway.Looking at all the Manhattan store windows, I am struck by how many thingsthere are that I DO NOT NEED! I need little - and that little, I needlittle! adultedADM Iam just preparing for an inter-city move, and I am feeling the same way! SOCRATES Ijust noticed that the "banner" on top of my screen says THINK FAST - mottoof the New Schoo (adulted.about.com....082300.htm)
Up till this summer , a single inspector was charged with the duty of keeping the run of them all, and of seeing to it that the law was respected by the owners. 5 Sixty cents is put as the average day s earnings of the 150,000, but into this computation enters the stylish cashier s two dollars a day, as well as the thirty cents of the poor little girl who pulls threads in an East Side factory, and, if anything, the average is probably too high. Such as it is, however, it represents board, rent, clothing, and pleasure to this army of workers. Here is the case of a woman employed in the manufacturing department of a Broadway house. It stands for a hundred like her own. She averages three dollars a week. Pays $1.50 for her room; for breakfast she has a cup of coffee; lunch she cannot afford. One meal a day is her allowance. This woman is young, she is pretty. She has the world before her. Is it anything less than a miracle if she is guilty of nothing worse than the early and improvident marriage, against which moralists exclaim as one of the prolific causes of the distress of the poor? Almost any door might seem to offer welcome escape from such slavery as th (www.bartleby.com/208/20.html)
As I exit the campus through Broadway, I can't help feeling nostalgic, but I'm also very motivated by what lies ahead. A realm of professional opportunities have now become available and owe it all to my Columbia Business School MBA. Graduation for my class at CBS took place a few weeks ago, and yes, we are finally MBAs. Even though we might not feel very different, our place in life has changed. Our business student phase has come to an end and it is time to move on to the next stage in our lives, where we will be responsible for applying the knowledge we have acquired and shine in our business careers: Welcome! (www.businessweek.com....ane/11.htm)
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Walt Whitman (1819 1892). Prose Works. 1892. I. Specimen Days 234. Some Old Acquaintances Memories Aug. 16. C HALK a big mark for to-day, was one of the sayings of an old sportsman-friend of mine, when he had had unusually good luck come home thoroughly tired, but with satisfactory results of fish or birds. Well, to-day might warrant such a mark for me. Everything propitious from the start. An hour s fresh stimulation, coming down ten miles of Manhattan island by railroad and 8 o clock stage. Then an excellent breakfast at Pfaff s restaurant , 24th street. Our host himself, an old friend of mine, quickly appear d on the scene to welcome me and bring up the news, and, first opening a big fat bottle of the best wine in the cellar, talk about ante-bellum times, 59 and 60, and the jovial suppers at his then Broadway place, near Bleecker street. Ah, the friends and names and frequenters, those times, that place. Most are dead Ada Clare, Wilkins, Daisy Sheppard, O Brien, Henry Clapp, Stanley , Mullin, Wood, Brougham, Arnold all gon (www.bartleby.co..../1234.html)
674/13 That's where he lived and knew people. Aspen arranged for Bertil to meet with Fred Remen, who had a private practice. Young lawyers were not too welcome in the practice of law in those days. Remen said he'd help Bertil get started. He didn't' have an office. He sat in the reception room with the stenographer. Bertil worked there for 6-8 months. Then Remen was appointed to the superior court of Pierce County. Bertil took over his office, which was located in the old Jone's Building on 8th and Broadway (www.plu.edu..../t043.html)
This dynamic man visited Nashville on October 22, 1907, and receiveda warm welcome. Once he arrived at Union Station in his own rail car, aparade was formed on Broadway at about 9:00 a.m. with the President in ahorse-drawn carriage accompanied by 25 to 30 automobiles. The escort ofhonor was Troop A of the Confederate Veteran Cavalry. The procession moveddown Broadway to Eighth Avenue. At that corner were some 2,000 studentsfrom schools including the University of Tennessee Medical School, the Humeand Fogg Schools, Buford College, Belmont College, Radnor College, BoscobelCollege, and St. Cecelia Academy. The parade then wound its way throughdowntown, ending up at the Ryman Auditorium (pages.prodigy.net....00054.html)
I am so sad to see the destruction of what had been such a beautiful neighborhood to grow into adulthood in. The major decline on Broadway began when the locally owned and operated stores were replaced by soul-less chain stores staffed by part time personnel who had no connection to this unique area. It was the individual shops and cafes that were the meeting places all the hill folks congregated in. Taller can work if the shops & their staff have a connection to the neighborhood and make a commitment to welcome as well as police their areas (blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com....04956.html)
Bollywood is blowin' up in Western pop culture and I'm lovin' it: Indian-inspired film and fashion shows, Desi hip hop and Bhangra beats, glossy magazine covers and swanky New York club parties, even an over-the-top Broadway musical . The latest development in this welcome South Asian invasion : Manish Vij and Xeni Jardin bring us a bunch of ads that hilariously spoof Bollywood's stylized musical cheese. In particular, the beer ads rock: A film about love, peacocks, and cold, frothy lager and Ingenious because less gaseous (www.kaichang.net/2004/05/)
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