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"Spring Awakening' in Norristown
The difficult years
Frank Wedekind's gripping 1891 drama of adolescents coping with a repressive society and unsupportive parents seemed an unlikely idea for a Broadway musical. Horizon's production has gone a long way toward salvaging it.
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Philadelphia Orchestra's season finale (2nd review)
Yannick and Sawallisch: Across the great divide
The Philadelphia Orchestra paid tribute to the last music director who embodied the Old World tradition while celebrating its first season under the sort of leader it needs today.
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"Pinocchio' at the Arden
How Pinocchio's nose grew (and other Arden flights of imagination)
At the Arden Children's Theatre, literalness always takes a back seat to the imagination, and talented actors enlist their child audiences as co-conspirators in their deceptions.
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The bearable weight of a German chorus
German culture, up close and personal
I've been asked to sing in a German men's chorus. Many of the singers came from Germany decades ago but still speak English with heavy accents. Some revere Wagner; some survived Hitler. What brings us together?
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Stoppard's "Heroes' at the Lantern (2nd review)
Waiting for Godot, or for Stoppard?
The audience was in stitches throughout much of Heroes. But the intellectual fireworks that accompany most Tom Stoppard scripts are largely absent here.
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Richard Foreman's "Old-Fashioned Prostitutes' in New York
Errant thoughts in the mind's field of vision
As with so many of Richard Foreman's experimental plays, what's on stage is a dramatization of the mind— his or ours— slipping and darting this way and that, propelled by desire and the dazzle of possibly actually knowing or grasping something.
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Stoppard's "Heroes' at the Lantern (1st review)
Take that, Godot! Or: Band of brothers, refusing to go gently
Beckett's Waiting for Godot argued that life is absurd but suicide is no solution; there is only waiting. In Heroes, Tom Stoppard offers a new twist: Even in a world without purpose, he suggests, heroics are possible.
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Philadelphia Orchestra's season finale (1st review)
Sawallisch in heaven, and merriment on Earth
Given its financial troubles, the Philadelphia Orchestra's morale is a legitimate concern for music lovers everywhere. To judge from Friday's evidence, the future looks sanguine.
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Robert O'Hara's "Bootycandy' at the Wilma
Alice (black, gay and male) in a 21st-Century Wonderland
The characters coping so ludicrously with issues of sexual desire in Robert O'Hara's stinging and original satire all happen to be black or gay (or black and gay)— that is, they're authority figures who've never exercised real authority.
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Rattle and Hannigan with the Philadelphia Orchestra (3rd review)
Kicking the Fantasia habit
The big news about last weekend's Philadelphia Orchestra concerts wasn't the shock music that occupied the first three-quarters of the program. It was Simon Rattle's rebuttal to the Disneyfied Beethoven Sixth that has prevailed in the public mind since Fantasia in 1940.
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