Word: antonellis
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Many students spend their senior year writing a thesis; but how many seniors do you know who write a thesis and a musical? Meet John Baxindine '00, the writer and composer of Antonelli's, a full-scale "Musical Mob Scene" that went up at the Agassiz last weekend...
...Antonelli's has all the elements of a 1940s film-noir tale: vampy dames, a seedy speakeasy, and a host of slick mobsters and other sundry paisans. The story centers around lounge singer Barbara Goldman (Jessica Kirshner '01), who is kind of blue that her FBI agent boyfriend Charles Redmond (Nick Adams '03) spends more time at the office tracking down mobsters than he does with her. When she's offered a cushy job performing at the mob-run restaurant Antonelli's, the feisty "Bar" takes the offer in hopes that her inside scoop on The Family will help...
...cast and crew of Antonelli's seem up to the challenge of the swing-era musical: lighting and staging are solid (although there were some opening night snafus), the acting is believable if slow-paced, the onstage band (led by Jon Dinerstein '01) is enthusiastic and the singing is often enjoyable (especially from Kirschner, who's got the chanteuse thing down, when you can hear...
...reality." There is an incessant riffing on the stereotypes of "good guy" and "bad guy" and on the formulaic nature of film-noir movies in general. Such an idea is ingenious in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, particularly within the confines of musical theater. Essentially, Antonelli's tries so hard to simultaneously revel in and revile its swing-era campiness that it ends up doing neither. Who should we cheer for? Who is fooling whom? The musical plays with the audience a little too much, so confusing them that they become disinterested...
...beating. William Farley put his $3 billion empire, which includes Fruit-of-the-Loom apparel, into Chapter 11 last year. But analysts say Farley could keep as much as $100 million of his personal fortune and homes in Chicago, Aspen and Maine. In Washington, real estate developer Dominic Antonelli Jr. has reached agreement with his creditors in a $700 million Chapter 11 case that would allow him to keep, among other things, $1.9 million in cash along with stock, cars and possessions valued at $2.1 million. If the deal goes through, the creditors could get as little as 17 cents...