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...performance actually represented a 50th anniversary performance of the musical, which opened on Broadway in 1948 and ran for an impressive 792 shows. Featuring music and lyrics by Broadway great Frank Loesser, Where's Charley was later turned into a movie in 1952. The movie starred Ray Bolger, better known as the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, who won a Tony for his performance as the original Charley...
Matt Bauer, endearing as an energetic, tap-dancing dynamo in the part of Charley, would have done Bolger proud; he exuded a reckless spirit in defiance of the implicit boundary between performer and audience, even inviting the audience to sing with him in the rousing "Once in Love with Amy." Bauer's high tenor and reedy voice made his deception as Charley's aunt believable, and he slipped with ease into the role of his own aunt, offering pouty and witty observations about women and relationships while playing "hard-to-get" with Sir Francis and Mr. Spettigue...
There are some unanswered questions. "We need to find out if those valves heal," says Dr. Ann Bolger, a cardiologist and spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. "There have been isolated reports of people getting better after they stopped taking the drugs. But we really don't know." She predicts it will take an additional six to 12 months of research to find...
...tactical two-step by the G.O.P. While national figures like Gingrich and Senate majority leader Trent Lott remain temperate and judicious, party operatives are urging rank-and-file Republicans to exploit Clinton's troubles at will. "It's a good strategy, especially for Republican challengers," says G.O.P. pollster Glen Bolger. When the party ran ads linking Democratic incumbents to an embattled Bill Clinton in 1994, Bolger says, "it worked extremely well. It told voters that they could send a message to Clinton by defeating a Democrat in Congress. It might work again...
...sudden switch prompted outrage in New Zealand, of course. "Dennis is doing what he's always doing," Prime Minister Jim Bolger told reporters. "He's bending the rules a little. I mean, it wouldn't be a final race if he didn't do that." Trenkle shrugged off the complaints and said, "With all the bad things written about Dennis over the years, this just rolls off his back...