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...matched only by ... well, by The Drowsy Chaperone. Rando festoons John Lee Beatty's balconied set with streamers, packs the stage with sight gags and sex appeal - 10 gals in bathing suits, courted by boys with press cards in their hat bands. The cast and orchestra, under the vigorous baton of Paul Gemignani, rise to the material, then skate on it. Garber does justice to one of the all-time rousing musical-comedy lines, "Did you say corn muffins?" (Mary had won his heart by revealing she makes the best corn muffins. When they reach the White House, Mary says...
...Force One won't do it. The real picture doesn't resolve itself until you go 450 miles up, where a flock of Earth-observing satellites have been training their cameras on the Gulf of Mexico and beaming what they see back home. Researchers at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge began studying the first portfolio of pictures taken since the hurricane hit last week, and what they saw was a shock. Entire barrier islands are missing. Coastal marshes have been shredded. A Native American encampment to the south of Port Sulphur seems to have vanished. Everywhere, dark watery splotches...
...George Frederic Handel’s famous work. The performance also marks a unique collaboration between the three choirs: the all-male Glee Club, all-female Radcliffe Choral Society, and the mixed Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Throughout the year, each chorus conducts its own concert series under the masterful baton of Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music Jameson Marvin. The Holden Choirs, named after the chapel in which they often rehearse, perform a wide variety of pieces written from the 15th to the 21st century, but rarely take the stage in such numbers. The merger of three...
...life of the city. There is a litany of daily annoyances, from crumbling streets to piles of flood-damaged cars that have yet to be hauled away, not to mention miles of abandoned housing. Sylvia Barabino, who lived in heavily flooded New Orleans East, drove in from Baton Rouge where she has been living since Katrina to vote. Her home is uninhabitable and the elementary school where she taught in the Lower Ninth Ward has not reopened. "This particular race is going to determine what's going to happen to New Orleans," she said. The fact that her neighbors didn...