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...could hardly watch the disaster unfold without wondering just how much more pain a place could bear. In a city scorned because it has no seasons, Los Angeles residents now say there are four: riots, earthquakes, fire and floods. The sturdy, aerobic city of dreams is out of breath, its spirits fragile. "We don't call them disasters anymore," says Dan Schnur, an aide to Governor Pete Wilson. "We call them plagues. And we're just two behind ancient Egypt -- frogs and boils...
Grease barely stops for a breath; if it did the audience would realize that there's nothing there. The only attempt at drama, Rizzo's pregnancy scare, comes in the final scene of the play and rings embarrassingly false. The characters are such empty stereotypes that Sandy's costume change in the finale makes her almost unrecognizable-without her white dress and ponytail there's nothing left of the character...
Take a deep breath and relax...
Officials said that the lack of adequate ventilation while using toxic materials could cause the dizziness, shortness of breath and headaches that the students complained about...
...Adams House Pool, where the baroque surroundings seem particularly applicable to this sort of thing. It is 1808, 15 years after the murder of Marat. A row of prison bars separates the audience from the stage, and at center lies the famous bathtub wherein Marat took his last breath. Except, in this tub lies a neurotic asylum patient, playing Marat. And all around him, the large cast of almost 20 twitching, dead-eyed, asylum inmates shuffle about, dressed in dirty white rags, talking to themselves and to their invisible friends. The four-member orchestra looks like heaven's gospel choir...