Word: boulevard
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When Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical retelling of the Hollywood film noir classic Sunset Boulevard made its debut in London in July, audience response was respectful but restrained. The staging that opened in Los Angeles last week had playgoers shouting with delight. Part of the difference may be the American propensity for public exuberance; some is surely the special joy Angelenos derive from a sly, knowing look at the gritty world of make-believe that dominates their local commerce. But the major reason is that the creators have at last figured out what the show is meant...
...stage shows second, as were both of this season's big hits, Tommy (essentially a set of music videos performed live) and Kiss of the Spider Woman. And what are some of the big musicals about to arrive on Broadway? The Red Shoes (based on the 1948 movie), Sunset Boulevard (based on the 1950 movie) and, next spring, the Disney production of Beauty and the Beast (based on the 1991 Disney movie...
Phife starts out the album declaring "Linden Boulevard represent, represent/Tribe Called Quest represent, represent/When the mike is in my hand, I'm never hesitant/ Back in the day my favorite jam was `Eric B. Is President."' On "Award Tour," Q-Tip claims, "I learned how to build mikes in my workshop class...
...They don't use the star system here," says Jerry Seinfeld, as he and Larry David trudge up the mall stairs to a coffee shop on Ventura Boulevard. "That's why I like it." Sure enough, they put their names on a list and are told there's a 10-minute wait. Actually, it is 25 minutes before a table is cleared for the creators of TV's hottest sitcom...
This combination of seeming spontaneity and dogged perfectionism might take its toll on a girl, or even on a middle-aged Midler. That, at least, is a running gag in the Experience the Divine tour. Who needs Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard when Bette does the aging diva right here? She tells us, in a cunning rap song, that she's been compromised, Disneyized, classified, Jurassified. "I don't get out much anymore," she demurely declares, adding that mostly she sits "in my star trailer watching CNN. I know what everyone in Bosnia is wearing." She frets that...