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With its whimsical story line, delightful if substanceless lyrics, and perfect comic mastery, it all seems familiar enough, but even the most devoted Porter afficianados probably will have trouble remembering You Never Know, Conceived by Porter as an intimate "chamber musical" with a small cast and none of the painstakingly choreographed routines so typical of commercialized Broadway, then as now, You Never Know might easily have remained forever unknown. When a debilitating horseback riding accident in 1937 left both of Portar's legs forever crippled, the Shuberts took the production into their own hands. Under their direction, "You Never Know...
...show closed after one season and might be remembered now as nothing more than a Trivial Pursuit stumper were it not for the efforts of Paul Lazarus. Working closely with the Porter estate, director Lazarus reconstructed the show from the original manuscript, returning "You Never Know" to its original "chamber musical" conception for the 1982-83 Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont...
Once it was a farmhouse, a great Federal affair of brick and hand-hewn oak that majestically held a Pennsylvania knoll just west of Philadelphia. It was a very old house-any architecture major could tell that-for down beneath the basement was a chamber as dark as the grave. This had been a depot on the Underground Railroad, a hiding cellar for northbound slaves. The landholders, generation after generation, had given over their rolling soil and their Quaker time to corn and cows, and for a very long while there it would seem the clock stood still...
...positioning, the sense of ceremony, even the awkward pas de deux, at the end, summed up perfectly all that had gone before, as well as apprehensions for what was to come. In a red-carpeted chamber of Peking's Great Hall of the People, the British Ambassador to China, Sir Richard Evans, sat at one end of a long table covered with a green-tasseled cloth. At the other end sat Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Nan. Behind them, the 50 or so officials from both countries, who had endured 22 rounds and 24 months of serpentine negotiation, stood...
...high degree of autonomy." But for all their celebrated ingenuity and adaptability, the Hong Kong Chinese fear that their new, sometimes draconian Communist motherland might either crush or mishandle the community's laissez-faire capitalist system. In the words of James McGregor, director of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, "Prosperity, in a free-enterprise territory like ours, requires confidence, and confidence is a delicate plant. You cannot have big, heavy-booted people trampling all over...