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...MANY, DANCE CAN BE an intimidating, highbrow art form, but five-time Tony Award-winning choreographer Michael Kidd (above left) insisted that every move be "completely understandable." Kidd's philosophy of grounding dance in reality--he called it "human behavior, stylized into musical rhythmic forms"--propelled some of Broadway's and Hollywood's most memorable sequences. Among them: the barn-raising dance in the 1954 film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse's heavenly romp through Central Park in The Band Wagon and the dynamic sequences for the original stage production of Guys and Dolls. Kidd...
...original, Angela Lansbury played Mrs. Lovett as a deranged kewpie doll, inanely flirtatious toward Sweeney yet heartless toward the human remains she pounded into patties. The wonderful singer-comedienne Judy Kaye, in last year's Broadway revival, saw Lovett as the flip side of Sweeney: they're both killers, but he's in it for retribution, she for the sick fun. Bonham Carter, though, is a figure of crafty scorn, and nearly as misanthropic as her demon lover. Ill fortune has ground him down; for her, it's the long slog of surviving among London's lower and criminal classes...
...September 2012, three years after the onset of a virus with catastrophic consequences. Weeds have sprouted and flourished in Times Square. Tattered billboards for Broadway shows mock the desolation of the place, which is now ugly, cratered and overrun by wildlife - kind of what it was like in the 1970s. Except that now Times Square is empty of all human life except for Robert Neville (Smith), who patrols the streets with his rifle and his faithful dog Samantha. He spots a deer and is ready to gun it down, when a lioness leaps on her prey and begins devouring...
...numbers. The actors’ intensity and the strength of the live band that accompanies their performance makes the Adams Drama Society production an engaging emotional rollercoaster of a show. Playwright Jonathan Larson wrote “tick, tick…BOOM!” before he created the Broadway hit “RENT.” Directed by Sean P. Bala ’09 and produced by Brittany C. Behrens ’08, the show tells the autobiographical story of composer Jon, who lives in an apartment in SoHo in 1990, and the crisis he undergoes...
...Arthur L. Kopit ’59 , who wrote “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad,” which premiered at the Agassiz Theatre in 1960 before moving to Broadway, and which was also the first production mounted at Harvard’s New College Theatre, thinks the state of affairs for the past five decades has been a good one.“Thank goodness Harvard doesn’t have a Drama concentration,” Kopit says.In...