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When it comes to social change, pop culture is the most sensitive of seismometers, and it was faster to pick up on the twixters than the cloistered social scientists. Look at the Broadway musical Avenue Q, in which puppets dramatize the vagaries of life after graduation. ("I wish I could go back to college," a character sings. "Life was so simple back then.") Look at that little TV show called Friends, about six people who put off marriage well into their 30s. Even twice-married Britney Spears fits the profile. For a succinct, albeit cheesy summation of the twixter predicament...
Nobody owns a town the way Ben Roethlisberger, the rookie quarterback for the Steelers, owns Pittsburgh, Pa. Not Bill Ford in Detroit. Not Steve Wynn in Las Vegas. Not even Broadway Joe Namath in New York City during his glory years. So when Roethlisberger, who shattered an NFL record by winning the first 13 starts of his career, looks to unwind, he can command a choice table at any upscale joint along Pittsburgh's revitalized Strip. But most Monday nights he and a few friends hold court at Jack's, a dive on the city's South Side, where...
DIED. JERRY ORBACH, 69, versatile Broadway song-and-dance man who became a TV fixture as the sardonic, street-smart New York homicide detective Lennie Briscoe on NBC's Law & Order; of prostate cancer; in New York City. The son of a vaudevillian father and a radio-singer mother, Orbach played the narrator El Gallo in the original cast of the sweetly allegorical (and enormously long-running) off-Broadway musical fable The Fantasticks. Although he went on to star in several hits on Broadway (Promises, Promises; 42nd Street; Chicago) and at the box office (Dirty Dancing; Prince of the City...
...that "anyone with half an ear will hear the most vibrant, varied new score in ages. Audiences will walk out of Bombay Dreams humming Rahman's songs and singing his praises. If music is the crucial part of a musical, then Rahman's genius will ensure that Bollywood conquers Broadway." Again I hoped that a show might be successful, and its songs click with listeners, broaden our currently cramped musical lexicon...
...outsize $14 million, received weak reviews ("A monochromatic musical in the key of beige." -Ben Brantley, New York Times). Rahman didn't get a Tony award, or even a nomination, for his music - the finest, broadest score in ages wasn't deemed one of the best four on Broadway last season! (Out of a total of about seven.) The Indo-American audience wasn't large enough to keep it afloat, and it didn't attract the idle non-Desi curious. Inserting American Idol notoriety Tamyra Gray did little to pump up the gross. Bombay Dreams ran only eight months...