Word: brooklyn
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With a book by Julius Epstein (co-writer of the film classic Casablanca), the show revolves around a group of Brooklyn single guys in 1929 who pool their money so that Gene, the most ambitious of their band, can make a killing in the stock market. Despite piquant parallels to our own market mania, the story is a pretty standard boy-meets-girl/boy-loses-money trifle. But it's a showcase for a fresh and winning Sondheim score, from the days when he wrote melodies meant to be enjoyed, not deciphered...
...years old when I first saw Jackie Robinson. It was the spring of 1948, the year after Jackie changed my life by breaking baseball's color line. His team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, made a stop in my hometown of Mobile, Ala., while barnstorming its way north to start the season, and while he was there, Jackie spoke to a big crowd of black folks over on Davis Avenue. I think he talked about segregation, but I didn't hear a word that came out of his mouth. Jackie Robinson was such a hero to me that I couldn...
Jackie Robinson had to be bigger than life. He had to be bigger than the Brooklyn teammates who got up a petition to keep him off the ball club, bigger than the pitchers who threw at him or the base runners who dug their spikes into his shin, bigger than the bench jockeys who hollered for him to carry their bags and shine their shoes, bigger than the so-called fans who mocked him with mops on their heads and wrote him death threats...
When Hennefeld is not organizing mass protests or negotiating with a Harvard attorney on sweatshop issues, the Brooklyn, N.Y. native can be found at WHRB, where he hosts a blues program on Sunday mornings. He also plays guitar for the local Whiskey Moan...
...younger brother of our No. 1, Deepak Abraham, will play in the top half of the lineup, as will Dylan Patterson, an incoming freshman from Brooklyn," Wyant said...