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...want to say bravo and best wishes for a long life of growing old together to the steadfast couple [Feb. 21]. In centuries to come, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles' love story will undoubtedly be the subject of novels, plays, films and maybe even an opera or a Broadway musical. And, of course, their parts will be played by beautiful young people. The true story is better. Patricia Collier Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. For years, Prince Charles seemed to be aging ungracefully, since we automatically compared him with Princess Diana. Suddenly, next to Camilla, he looks like an assured...
...Broadway has had its share of nebbishy musical stars, from Seymour Krelboyne in The Little Shop of Horrors to Leo Bloom in The Producers. But it's fair to say that no stage has ever been so densely populated with wacky misfits as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The off-Broadway musical, a sleeper hit that is moving to Broadway next month, charts the angst of six nerdy and needy young people as they wrestle down words like capybara and omphaloskepsis in their efforts to win a trip to the national spelling finals. Coming on the heels...
...half-whisper by the moderator ("Mr. Barfee has a sea anemone circus in his basement"), to the ridiculously unhelpful sentences meant to put the words in context ("Sally's mother told her it was her cystitis that made her special"). The show also, more distractingly, partakes in the current Broadway fad of audience participation: four civilians each night are selected to go onstage to compete alongside the actors. (They're coached in advance to ask two questions--for the word's definition and for the word to be used in a sentence--but they rise or fall on their...
...explained, as opposed to their more emotionally static pop counterparts. “A pop lyric is not written to be acted.” But with the birth of hybrid musicals attempting just that, Rybeck rejoined, “a new technique is being born right now on Broadway...
...those people that thinks you have to be trained from the time you’re three,” Prince noted. “I didn’t see a Broadway show until I was twenty-two.” Creativity, she believes, is not simply a question of nature-versus-nurture, but a combination of talent, determination, and opportunity. “I think you have the capacity within you. Sometimes you’re just not aware of that capacity...