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...rock band Queen to a jokey sci-fi fable about a future world where live music has been banned. Billy Joel's oeuvre has been matched to Twyla Tharp's choreography in Movin' Out, which is prepping in Chicago for a Broadway opening this fall. There's a Beach Boys musical in the works and another one on the Doors, and even a Bruce Springsteen show, Drive All Night, with its sights set on Broadway. "Pop music can be overpowering," says Tharp, explaining the appeal of the oldies. "It has so much connotation in people's minds...
Tharp has done this sort of thing before, but usually in the confines of highbrow dance troupes (like Deuce Coupe, based on Beach Boys music, for the Joffrey Ballet). Here she manages to enhance Joel's music (sung by a Billy stand-in, Michael Cavanaugh, who sits at a piano, accompanied by a 10-piece band, on a platform above the stage) while buoying the spirits with sexy, high-voltage dancing that promises to give Broadway a rush of excitement. Best of all, she does it the old-fashioned, pre-Mamma Mia! way: no dancing in the aisles...
LIVING ROOM COUCH—At the dawn of summer freedom, I thought that fulfillment would come from an internship or a temp job and a few weekends at the beach. I had no idea that I would also spend the next three months destroying mythical monsters, cavorting with Greek gods and repeatedly saving the world from the schemes of a mad scientist...
...convicted, these men could be imprisoned—but the longest sentence that has yet been imposed was 46 years for Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic for genocide. Most of the accused currently reside in jail in a beach resort area of the Hague, just two doors down from where I’m staying. Among the services at the prisoners’ disposal are satellite televisions carrying Yugoslav stations and free massages for back problems...
...TRAVEL Hua Hin: The Next Beach Thing...