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"Catch Me If You Can' on national tour
Calling Professor Harold Hill
Some musicals about con men succeed (think The Music Man); others, like this one, fail— because complex scams aren't easily explained in songs competing with a blaring orchestra.
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Leslie Fenton and Leo Sewell at Rosenfeld Gallery
When opposites attract
Defying conventional odds, two very different artists, when placed together, enhance each other's work and create an environment that you hate to leave.
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Orchestra's maestro-less Mozart
Mozart sans maestro
Which conductor gets the most out of Mozart? The Philadelphia Orchestra's recent program suggests that the answer may be: no conductor at all.
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Three shows at the Morgan in New York
J.P. Morgan's Cabinet of Curiosities
The Morgan Library can always be counted on for a rollicking good time, if your taste runs to the quietly magnificent and extravagantly obscure.
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"Inventing Abstraction' at the Museum of Modern Art
De-realizing the ‘real'
The Museum of Modern Art's broad survey of the first generation of abstract art conveys for the first time an adequate sense of the scope and excitement of the movement toward abstraction as it swept— and permanently transformed— Western art, not to mention literature, dance, film and even science.
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Inge's "Picnic,' revived in New York
A woman's place in Eisenhower's America
Behind William Inge's sunny, gentle slice of small-town Americana from 1953 lies another, quite sobering story. A woman's life in that sweet little Kansas town was rigid and restrictive, to say the least.
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A mammoth "Les Troyens' at the Met
Homer and Virgil, in ‘only' five acts
Les Troyens is a mammoth work that's rarely staged, for understandable reasons. The new Met production defied the range of one fine tenor, but a little-known replacement came to the rescue.
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Leslye Headland's "Assistance' at the Wilma
O, to be young, shallow and exploited
Working for a tyrannical boss is no fun. Neither is Leslye Headland's tired attempt to wring comedy from the situation.
Assistance. By Leslye Headland; David Kennedy directed. Through February 3, 2013 at the Wilma Theater, Broad and Spruce Sts. (215) 546-7824 or wilmatheater.org.
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Real life: Kenneth Lonergan's 'Margaret'
The unpredictable messiness of real life
Contrary to what you see in most movies and plays, “happy endings” last at best for a few days, and more likely a few hours. Kenneth Lonergan's haunting Margaret is that rare film that captures reality with gripping accuracy— if you can find it.
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Art Museum's "Dancing Around the Bride' (2nd review)
Before you dance with Duchamp, walk with him
By making art from ordinary objects, Duchamp and his colleagues sent a message: It's not the work of art but the work of imagination that's essential to creativity.
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