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...younger son Justin turns twenty today. Happy birthday, dear Justin...
...same edition blamed the imposition of sanctions and the border conflict on opposition parties based in the U.S. Another said that newspapers should stop writing about the border troubles because they don't exist. (Strangely, there was also a page of photos from Taylor's mother's 75th birthday celebration...
...hard-core pornographic pop-ups that show up when he visits soft-core sites. Joel also told me that he keeps all his financial data on his home computer. Interesting. Come to think of it, I've always wondered about his salary. Joel, I owe you an e-birthday card. Be sure to open it at home...
...soon-to-be-a-hit Rent opened. Now one of his earlier works, Tick, Tick...Boom!, has been revived off-Broadway. It's a slight, autobiographical piece (with a script worked over by David Auburn, author of Proof) about the struggling composer's own angst at reaching his 30th birthday. Yet this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neurotic makes up for its self-involvement (Jon tries to get his agent on the phone; Jon gets an encouraging phone call from Stephen Sondheim) with sincerity and self-deprecating wit, along with Larson's passionate, rock-inspired music...
...Irish-Catholic actress whose career never takes off. There are clever interludes--an audition in which we hear Kathleen's inner turmoil, set to the melody of the song she's performing--and unabashedly romantic ones, like a mock Russian folktale that Jamie sings to his beloved on her birthday. The show is too sketchy in spots, particularly in its portrayal of Kathleen. But Brown's music (lushly orchestrated with Brown himself on piano) is the least arid and most accessible of the scores turned out by his generation of Sondheim disciples. This is smart, lyric-driven music that doesn...