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Brother Blue followed with his traditional invocation, a characteristically enchanting melange of narrative poetry and scat with saxophone accompaniment by Don Braden, who backed up many of the singers in this show...
Finally, justifiably famous alum Braden, who took time out of his no doubt busy schedule of playing sax behind world-famous jazz artists, got to strut his stuff on Miles Davis' "Seven Steps to Heaven." After his usual humorous sermonette on the nature of jazz improvisation, and the explanation "I'm tryin' to make something nice," he launched into an improv stunning in its dexterity and almost symphonic development...
...project began as a book about working wives, evolved into a steamy kiss- and-tell memoir, had its best parts lifted by the Washington Post, then was withdrawn from circulation -- all without ever being published. Such was the fate of the 80-page book proposal by Washington Hostess Joan Braden, wife of Syndicated Columnist Tom Braden, frequent companion of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and mother of the brood on which the TV sitcom Eight Is Enough was based...
...proposal, ghostwritten by Novelist Les Whitten, portrayed the plucky heroine rebuffing Nelson Rockefeller when he surprised her in the shower "wearing nothing more than a puckish smile" and backing out of a bedroom encounter with Robert Kennedy. When the predictable furor erupted, Braden claimed she was an author wronged: her literary agent submitted the proposal without her final approval. "Of course, Joan approved it," says Braden's agent. "She's just getting cold feet." Braden does not deny the incidents in the manuscript. But they may be blue-penciled from a presumably tamer version she is planning with her husband...
...creators had some smart ideas: instead of a gloomy, abandoned train siding, the gaudy set now represents a panorama of the U.S., dotted with highlights a child might recognize, from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge; the recorded narration too is now by a child: Braden Danner, who appears live in the Main Stem's other big new musical, Les Miserables. Along with these bright ideas came a dumb one: instead of having the skating encircle the audience, as in London, the races now take place within the confines of the stage. Thus there is no longer...