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...culture formed over the past couple decades, the schism between high art and low art has been breached. “Where we used to have formal, widely agreed upon boundaries between what we considered high culture—Shakespeare, fine art—and low culture—Broadway musicals or graffiti art—we’ve seen a gradual blurring and redefinition of these boundaries,” Kaufman says. “Doing mashups can be as high-status as playing Beethoven’s String Quartets, and in many cases even more...
...Wall Street, New York City), with costumed re-enactors and fife and drum music, as well as a lecture by New York historian Barnet Schecter at 11 a.m. So if you're doing business in Manhattan's Financial District, take a detour to Federal Hall or to Trinity Church (Broadway and Wall Street, New York City), where there will be a 12 p.m. service in memory of the freedom-fighting soldiers. See the NPS site for details...
...wheel looms to the right. This is the kind of timeless, dreamy setting that could only exist in a theater.It’s a great idea, but unfortunately it’s not a new one. Joe Mantello’s “Assassins, which appeared on Broadway four years ago,” had the same shooting gallery, and this production also copies its 2004 predecessor by merging the roles of the Balladeer—the show’s singing narrator—and Lee Harvey Oswald. Last Friday’s production may have come...
...just as likely to fizzle as they are to thrive when they immigrate to the U.S. On the one hand, the low-key Brits seem far more wowed than Americans by a certain brand of over-the-top, kitschy production - from Saturday Night Fever (hit in London, flop on Broadway) to We Will Rock You, the daft Queen musical from London that couldn't get any farther than Las Vegas in the States. At the same time, the specific social milieu and topical political references of so many current British plays frequently make them bad bets for any producer looking...
...version that just opened on Broadway - directed, as it was in London, by Stephen Daldry - has lost a little of the power it displayed on its home turf. But if Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank-rescue plan can become the model for the rest of the world's finance ministers, there's no reason why Billy Elliot - the best musical to come out of Britain since Miss Saigon - can't bridge the cultural chasm...