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Several theaters tend to show current hits with big name stars. One of these is the Wang Center for the Performing Arts (270 Tremont Street, 482-9393). The Wang Center was booked for 39 out of 52 weeks last season, 16 of those weeks given to the Boston Ballet Company which claims the Wang as its home...
...looks pleadingly at the jury and shakes his head in a gesture of grief. After taking Applied Theater Techniques' course, a female attorney in California overcame her irritation at a judge who insisted on calling her "little lady" by imagining the male chauvinist in a pink tutu and ballet slippers...
...which they too want to be everything imaginable. The result: a month-long extravaganza embracing 350 theater, dance, music, film and video events in 55-plus venues, ranging from a Polish troupe re-creating 17th century religious ecstasy in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to a water ballet accompanied by video projections at the Columbia University swimming pool...
...given anything interesting to do; or theater, except that the texts are typically minimal and witless; or performance art, except that the real emphasis is on props and tricks rather than performers. A case in point: the pretentious numbers staged by Bill Forsythe, an American, for his Frankfurt Ballet...
STRAVINSKY: PETRUSHKA; SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS (EMI). Britain's Simon Rattle and his City of Birmingham Orchestra shake and roll in Stravinsky's great ballet score, then offer a poised, precise symphony...