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...fresh production of Mozart's The Magic Flute might change that. The timing, at least, seems blessed: In 1956, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust decided to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's birth by staging four of his best-known works, including The Magic Flute, and a company was born. Fifty years later, they have repatriated one of their finest exports, director David Freeman, to launch a new version combining vocal firepower (Amelia Ferrugia, Jaewoo Kim, Emma Matthews) with the aerial acrobatics of Legs on the Wall. Did someone mention crossover appeal? "You can't stay 19th century," says...
...Wonderland”) new film is an adaptation of an eighteenth century British novel, apparently well-known for being un-filmable. The novel is ostensibly Tristam telling his own life story, but he takes so many detours that the novel actually ends with his birth...
Despite the muddled story line, Winterbottom sets up some nice parallels, such as the birth of the film (the film ends with a screening of the film within a film) echoing Tristram’s birth in the novel. But the majority of viewers and Coogan—in a hilarious subplot—have not read the book, making these sort of connections nice in theory, but unhelpful to viewers...
...Japanese Emperor Akihito; her third child, news of which has quieted a heated national debate over a succession law as the public awaits word of the baby's gender; in Tokyo. With no male heirs in sight--both Kiko and Crown Princess Masako have so far given birth only to girls--many Japanese have been clamoring to revise the law to allow an empress and subsequently her children to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne, an event Japan has not witnessed in more than two centuries and officially banned...
...Then came the shocker. On Feb. 7, news leaked that Princess Kiko was pregnant-11 years after she last gave birth. To many, the timing of the leak (just before the bill's submission) and that of the baby's conception (just after the panel's recommendation) seemed, well, like happy coincidences. Koizumi promptly tabled the bill. If the child is a boy, traditionalists will know that their prayers have been answered. And if it isn't? Then they'll just have to offer up some more...