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A composer’s secrets
Secrets of a great composer (who hasn't yet mastered the elevator speech)
When I recently dug out an anthem I’d written 32 years ago, I was struck by how good it was— and how bad it was, too. How could I salvage it? Just another day in the life of a composer.
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‘Bunny Bunny’: The real Gilda Radner (1st review)
The Gilda we didn’t know, until now
This "sort-of romantic comedy" about the relationship between two pillars of “Saturday Night Live” is lately revived mostly for cancer awareness events. The current version dispenses with cheap laughs and gives us a deeply insecure— and consequently very human— Gilda Radner.
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Lucinda Childs: Origins of post-modern dance
Lucinda Childs, body and soul
Some of the best of Philadelphia’s modern dancers recreated the challenging work of Lucinda Childs, a pioneer of post-modern dance in America.
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Met’s misguided new ‘Eugene Onegin’
If it ain't broke....
The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Eugene Onegin is full of innovations, almost all of them detrimental.
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Orchestra plays Britten, Strauss and Mahler
Clothes make the music man
Oboist Richard Woodhams took the stage in a tailored blue shirt, worn outside his pants— It symbolizes a change in attitude— a signal that the Philadelphia Orchestra understands its need to experiment and adapt.
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Nudity as speech: ‘Arguendo’ in New York
Who says lawyers are dull?
Can Supreme Court transcripts and legal briefs— even about nude dancing— make exciting theater? Ask the cutting-edge Elevator Repair Service troupe, which thrives on bringing text on stage in uniquely improbable ways. In Arguendo, the result is a zany satire that’s simultaneously entertaining and intellectually stimulating.
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Richard Burgin’s ‘Hide Island’
A vision of civilized savagery
In Richard Burgin's dark, dystopic vision, human society is mostly an arrangement for predators to seek their prey, and vice versa.
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Gioia de Cari’s ‘Truth Values’ at Annenberg
Pity the woman with brains
Women continue to battle stereotypes to break into science and math. Gioia de Cari claims male chauvinism drove her out of MIT. But her one-woman show suggests that perhaps she really preferred a career on the stage.
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‘Parade’ at the Arden
Leo Frank lives! (With a little help from Terrence Nolen)
Parade, the musical about the 1913 Leo Frank lynching was rightly considered a flawed work when it opened at Lincoln Center in 1998. Now Terrence Nolen and Jorge Cousineau have re-imagined it and added a radically new dimension that brings Frank’s tragic story to life as never before.
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Peter Paone’s ‘Wild Flowers’ at Woodmere
Last of the Surrealists
Peter Paone does not paint pretty pictures. His flowers are never what they might seem. Look closely and you’ll find the killer bee and the potential rapist.
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