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...week--Guy Rochman has known that someday he would direct that musical revue. "It was a traumatic point in my life, the fall of '68... I was taking drivered and breaking up with my girl. I saw the show and fell in love with it." He wanted to sing 'Amsterdam', but he wanted to direct it even more. When the lights went up on Wednesday night's black tie Patron's Preview, Guy had brought off the first non-professional staging of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris...
...Excuse me," Guy says, and clapping his hands, calls out, "Okay, places everybody. We're working on Act One, then running straight through... Oh, by the way," he turns back. "I'm doing the part. Yeah, Amsterdam--but not on purpose, I'll explain later." He joins the other singers--Curt, Patty, and Paula--behind the backdrop, and the overture begins for Tuesday's rehearsal...
...took over but became embroiled with his other (professional) show and opted out the next week. Guy re-cast the part, but by then the show was one-third blocked, voices were more developed, and more importantly, the cast had become close. The others asked Guy to take over Amsterdam. "I figure I'll get torn apart for being an actor-director. The egocentricity, after hearing 104 other people!" But it was, after all, how fate had manipulated...
...then aged four) set off for Europe. Since then, she and her son, plus three children born later, have visited 37 countries, 18 of them in Europe. Along the way she did encounter a few perils, however, which she reveals in the new guide. One was in Amsterdam, where "ladies of the night are illuminated in red neon in ground-floor showcases in many narrow streets. I don't quite know how you explain this to children." She suggests, hopefully, that the children may not notice, then adds, "If they do, I hope this will serve as a cautionary...
...time, the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher seemed a cultural anomaly. He loathed modern art-"I consider 60% of the artists nuts and fakes," he said of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum-and was duly ignored by it. For most of his working life, critics dismissed him as a pedantic illustrator. Born in 1898, Escher was 52 before his tightly executed woodcuts, lithographs and engravings began to attract even a crumb of attention. A retiring, ironic man with the bony nose and goat beard of an El Greco prelate, Escher took no part in art debates, lived quietly...