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Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories fits into the first category. Appealing to a broad, mainstream audience, it represents one of the first endeavors by a major publishing house to tap into this tradition. It includes the most renowned naturalized or U.S. born Latino writers and some alluring tales, but...
The nearly straight casting of The Emperor's New Clothes and the allegorical nature of the production (God is repeatedly invoked, albeit ironically, as the ultimate benefactor) make it less immediately appealing than the knee-slappingly funny Ugly. Nonetheless, it too left Friday's appreciative audience giggling throughout.
Anderson warned against appealing too much to human rights, saying it could lead to a legalistic view and could "lead very, very mistakenly into the idea that we are doing police work."
Connoisseurs of musicals know that the story has limitations. The Phantom can sing only one kind of song to Christine: I-adore-you-and-you-ab hor-me. Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version...
"Well, the Oscar meant a lot to me, but this means a little more," Chase said. "It's given in a spirit I find a little more appealing."