Word: carmens
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...offers more dancing in the aisles than Five Guys Named Moe, more exposed flesh (of both genders) than Miss Saigon, more relentless good cheer than Crazy for You and more Carmen Miranda fruit-bowl hats than any other musical in Broadway history -- except for its predecessors of the same name. Yes, the brainless Brazilian musical celebration is back in all its feel-good glory, blending campy musical novelties, twanging folk songs, a jamboree of gymnastics and color-drenched carnivals when the entire 75-member cast is onstage, shamelessly seeking to please. The show serves a more diverse, multicultural crowd than...
...advent of AIDS has made bisexuality a matter of medical concern. Bisexual men who practice unsafe sex with male and female partners may help speed the spread of HIV through the heterosexual community. "Up until the time of AIDS, the term bisexual was hardly even used," says anthropologist Carmen Dora Guimaraes of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, "but with the spread of AIDS, we are now trying to flush out this enigmatic character...
Carlos Saura, the dazzling Spanish director who is responsible for the movie of the Barcelona Games, has enough passionate drama to work with to film another Carmen. He could begin with Magic Johnson at the opening ceremonies, undertaking what Johnson, who has more cause than most to savor moments, called "the most important thing in my life." He could show Gwen Torrence sobbing uncontrollably as she collected her 200-m gold, and, 10 minutes later, in a raucous press conference, spitting out that drug use is "in swimming, it's in track and field, it's everywhere." And he could...
Playing It Straight With Carmen...
...CARMEN is quintessential opera that virtually performs itself. So irresistible are its melodies, so forceful is the drama, so primal the emotions, that it's hard for even an inept production to miss. Over the years, Bizet's masterpiece has been adapted, updated, mutilated, so it is refreshing that the New York City Opera has a new version (performances till November) that plays it straight. It helps to have a Carmen who dominates the stage, and Sharon Graham, a young American, scores high. With a fluid, supple mezzo, she revels in the gypsy girl's fatal craving for freedom...