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...With 42nd Street the failing is plainer. Except for David Brummel as the veteran musical-comedy director and Linda Griffin as the snappy chorine Anytime Annie, nobody in the company can act. The book has always been silly and illogical, and requires high style to bring off its camp excesses. Most at sea is Gina Trano as the kid from the chorus who replaces the injured star. Although she manages a lovely awakening into competence during the course of the musical-within-a-musical, there is nothing special about her in the earlier scenes to justify everyone's much voiced...
...Band and Kern's early Princess Theater musicals. This summer Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House, which in 1984 restored Kern's Leave It to Jane, will unveil a Secaucus-enhanced edition of Gershwin's Lady, Be Good! With the Broadway musical on the British dole and with revivals like 42nd Street reminding theatergoers of better days and more hummable tunes, the ghost of Broadway past is ready to come home in triumph. Now, wouldn't that be something to sing about...
...horror. I saw The Amityville Horror on Times Square, and there wasn't anybody talking back at the screen. There was total silence, which is unusual for 42nd Street. It was awe. The silence you'd hear in a medieval church, I thought. That's what horror is -- the church of 42nd Street...
...sexual revolution, which celebrated polymorphous diversity, ended with cruel jolts: first herpes, then AIDS. Says Michael Novak, a social philosopher at the American Enterprise Institute: "The coming theme for the liberal society is virtue and character. In its youth liberal society could claim that the sex shops on 42nd Street represented emancipation. Adulthood means learning to choose, and above...
...festival in the world. It has too many shows, too many egos clogging the Grand Canal and not enough people on the switchboard. Even when it is bad it is still good because it is held in Venice--an advantage that few other cultural shindigs can claim. The 42nd Biennale, which opened last week, is the largest ever, featuring work from an unprecedented 41 nations. It divides into two main sections: the national pavilions and a set of shows arranged around a given theme. This year the theme is relations between art and science...