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Only three years after they were almost expelled from Harvard's athletic program, the Harvard men's rugby team is pushing hard to become Harvard's 42nd varsity sport...
...anyone can bring pizazz to this decrepit genre, it's Baz Luhrmann--the mad Aussie who, in his 1996 Romeo + Juliet made Shakespeare play like a psychedelic rap video. The idea here was to take a plot that crosses 42nd Street with Camille and, he says, "steal bits of culture from the 20th century and use it to make a code, a software, to access emotion and character...
...Indeed, for all the praise Stroman has received for the mirror effect that mimics the overhead shot of the swastika dancers in the movie, I haven?t heard a peep about the same device that director Mark Bramble uses to create an even niftier Busby Berkeley effect in "42nd Street." This show, a revival of Gower Champion?s 1980 reworking of the 1933 movie, is hardly one that I was clamoring to see back on Broadway. Yet it packs in so much precision tap-dancing, lavishly appointed production numbers, talented performers and delightful Harry Warren-Al Dubin songs (including three...
...42nd Street" is getting overshadowed by "The Producers," "Blast" has been totally annihilated. The critics treated this entertaining show, which originated in Indiana and has toured successfully around the country, like a gawky tourist who has wandered into a swank supper club by mistake. One of those new-style music spectacles (think "Stomp!"), "Blast" features a horde of fresh faced kids in their 20s performing an array of choreographed band numbers. It?s a mix of marching-band music, baton twirling, ballet, Ed Sullivan novelty act, Blue Man Group-style performance art and a few other things that escape...
...sexier, smarter and more charismatic than any of TIME's hacks. His name alone has the power to move your fish wrap off the newsstands. Years from now, this issue of your magazine will be forgotten; Clinton, however, will be remembered as our much maligned and wildly popular 42nd President. STEPHEN LEMONS Burbank, Calif...