Word: carousels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When On the Town opened in 1944, New York, New York really was a helluva town. And Broadway was one fabulous art form. Oklahoma!, cornpone revolutionizer of the musical, was playing nearby, and Carousel was about to open. Kurt Weill, Sigmund Romberg, Cole Porter and Harold Arlen all had new shows. As for the new kids, two of On the Town's creators were 31: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the co-stars who wrote the show. Two were 26: composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins...
This production clearly does justice to Shaffer's work. The complex and potentially confusing storyline is delivered clearly but not condescendingly. By placing the stage in the center of the audience, intermittently rotating the carousel-like platform in the center and constantly shifting the lighting, director Matthew Kwatinetz '98 let each audience member receive a unique perspective of the action onstage. The accompanying instrumental music often blended seamlessly with the tension and emotion of the events on stage--although some of the first act scores seemed better suited to the contrived drama of a made-for-TV movie...
...JonBenet was being groomed for greater things--talk-show appearances, modeling gigs, commercials, even television sitcom and movie roles. The California contests are particularly popular because talent scouts and casting agents often use them to search for new faces. Six-year-old Randi Anderson, a "Miss Citrus Heights," "Golden Carousel National Queen," "Universal Miss Supreme Beauty," and "Miss American Beauty" who has been on the circuit for only a year and a half, already has a thriving modeling career, and has had her face on the cover of Sacramento magazine...
...clockwise from top left) ETHAN EMBRY, STEVE ZAHN, TOM EVERETT SCOTT, LIV TYLER and JOHNATHON SCHAECH, the story of a rock band in 1964. (You were perhaps expecting vampires and crack?) "There was a lack of cynicism," says Hanks of that era. "In 1964, everybody still believed in the carousel of progress." Directing has given Hanks a new appreciation for acting. "If you squint your eyes as an actor, it looks like you're on vacation. You're in a trailer, people bring you food any time you want it and you lollygag your way to work." On the other...
...CURRENT SONG] You'll Never Walk Alone Rodgers and Hammerstein, from the 1945 musical Carousel...