Word: broadway
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Neon has also been employed on Broadway (in Chicago, Sophisticated Ladies) to evoke bygone eras and in films to fulfill the future. In the age of laser beams and computer-generated graphics, Neon Artist Larry Albright simulated intergalactic weaponry and UFOs for Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
Forget this week's meager Tony awards in the Broadway musical category. It has actually been a wonderful year for musicals. Indeed, with just a little stretching of the Tony rules, a whole stageful of prizes could have been bestowed. Best new musical: Zip! Goes a Million. Best actress: Judy Kaye as the Gay Nineties chanteuse in Sweet Adeline. Best supporting actress: Jane Connell as the inebriated Quaker aunt in Oh, Boy! Best eccentric dance: Mia Dillon for her daft balloon ballet in Music in the Air. Best orchestrations: John McGlinn for Leave It to Jane. Best book and lyrics...
...names and titles are unfamiliar, it is because the shows were produced a few blocks from the hoopla of Broadway, on the concert stages of Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall. Five of the musicals opened originally on Broadway between 1917 and 1932; the sixth, Zip! Goes a Million, closed out of town in 1919 (and thus could have been eligible in the Tonys' "new musical" category). All have a witty ebullience that would merit revival even if they did not boast some unforgettable songs: I've Told Every Little Star, Till the Clouds Roll By, Bill, The Song...
...100th birthday was the 27th) when the Postal Service issued a new 22 cents stamp in his honor. It has kept rolling along with concerts, radio and TV tributes, and retrospectives of Kern films from Show Boat to Swing Time. This week marks the premiere of an off- & Broadway revue, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Jerome Kern, which spans the composer's career from the turn of the century to his death in 1945. In Britain, where the composer met his first stage success (and his only wife), three more revues are wending their way toward the West End. In the past...
Modestino Gallery, 426 Broadway, Cambridge, 868-7206. Plugging in Oil paintings and pastels by Josephine Bryan Wed-Sun noon...