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...twenty-two minute mockumentary-style sitcom that follows three arms of the same family. There’s Jay (Ed O’Neill), remarried to a much younger Colombian beauty, Gloria (Sofía Vergara), with a sensitive preteen son; his daughter Claire (Julie Bowen), a stay-at-home mom with three kids and a well-meaning man-child husband, Phil (Ty Burrell); and his son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), a gay man who has just adopted a Vietnamese baby with his partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet...
...adage "write what you know" is one of the most well-worn pieces of advice in the old literary playbook. For Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, the creators of the musical "[title of show]”—which runs through February 13 at the Boston Center for the Arts— this saying became the playbook. And as an aspiring writer, perhaps I can follow in their footsteps...
What ultimately engages, then, is the snap of the dialogue and the wit of the lyrics. In the original productions, Bell (who wrote the book) and Bowen (who penned the music and lyrics) co-starred alongside their three original collaborators: Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, and musical director Larry Pressgrove. In this production presented by the SpeakEasy Stage Company, the actors benefit from such an organic breeding ground; the chemistry between them is easily channeled into the jokes that play on the comfortable freedom of imagination that comes from being among friends...
Maybe the most surprising thing about Modern Family is how many laughs it gets out of the most ordinary of its three couples: Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen), overscheduled and driven by competing parenting impulses. She wants to compensate for her wild childhood. "If Haley never wakes up on a beach in Florida half-naked," she says, "I've done my job." He wants desperately to be cool, mortifying his kids by memorizing every dance move in High School Musical and asserting his (faulty) knowledge of text-message-speak ("WTF: 'Why the Face...
...you’ve ever been on an endless hunt for, say, a classic Elizabeth Bowen novel that hasn’t seen shelves since before 1923, then the Harvard Book Store might be just the place for you. Beginning this Friday, customers can use the store’s new “Espresso Book Machine” to select a book from millions of titles now in the public domain that will be printed and bound right on the spot, presumably akin to the way that a coffee machine instantly fills a cup of coffee. Needless...