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...Ariadne), this is minor Sondheim - and even minor Nathan Lane. He?s as commanding as ever on stage, with a voice that can rally a herd of elephants, but seems oddly muted here, perhaps to suit his sober theme. The cast around him works hard, including pros like Roger Bart (who replaced Saturday Night Live?s Chris Kattan at the last minute) and comic John Byner (slyly underplaying as Charon, the wisecracking pilot of the boat to Hades). And director Susan Stroman (The Producers) has pitched in with everything from bungee cords and backflipping frogs. It all might have worked...
...suddenly, thanks to glitzy televised tournaments, a younger generation of hard-core players and a wildly popular version of the game known as Texas Hold 'Em, poker's luck has turned--spectacularly. "It's red hot," says Hard Rock Hotel casino executive Bart Pestrichello. Celebrities play it, Ivy League students play it; even educated kids play it. "It has exploded," says actor Ben Affleck...
...bright or fashionable, that is. But suddenly, thanks to glitzy televised tournaments, a younger generation of hard-core players and a wildly popular version of the game known as Texas Hold 'Em, poker's luck has turned - spectacularly. "It's red hot," says Hard Rock Hotel casino executive Bart Pestrichello. Celebrities play it, Ivy League students play it; even educated kids play it. "It has exploded," says actor Ben Affleck. He ought to know. Affleck, who recently won $356,000 at the California State Poker Championship, is something of a poker poster boy as well as an amateur poker philosopher...
...there's always the chance that you'll stumble upon an up-and-coming hit. Jerry Springer--The Opera debuted here in 2002 before heading on to London's National Theater and West End. This summer Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, brings her one-woman show, My Life as a 10 Year Old Boy, to the Fringe. And Guy Masterton, who directed last year's hit Twelve Angry Men with a cast of comics, is back this year casting comics in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...lack of motive. In P.N.G., politicians' futures depend on how much funding they can get for their local areas, but Treasurer Bart Philemon has kept a tight rein on public spending. "Some of the M.P.s were expecting a lot more money for things they had promised the electorate," says former politician Bernard Narokobi. "Others were pushing for the economic portfolios. And they are frustrated because they can't get them...