Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raised to be charming, not sincere," says Cinderella's Prince to the Baker's Wife. It is an apt description of this production of Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's musical valentine to the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. The competent cast does a good job with the funnier first act. But especially in the inherently weaker second act, the actors too often seem lost in pro forma direction and overwhelmed by the pit orchestra from hell. There are saving graces--the well designed set and scene-stealing cow are two examples--but John Weinstein's production of Into the Woods...
...loss destroyed Harvard's hope for a Cinderella ending to its season, but the Crimson didn't quit...
...Braves -- last year's Cinderella, this year's proud prince -- are spending the World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays. Canada's best team shook off its decade-long notoriety as a talented squad with no guts by playing a six-game swan song for the once dynastic Oakland A's. Now the Jays and Braves do battle to decide whether the last song of the baseball year will be O Canada! or Georgia on My Mind...
...106th Wimbledon tennis championships promised several Cinderella stories but delivered none. Old-timers Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe got as far as the semifinals, then were whipped. And Monica Seles, the steamrolling Serb with a shot at a Grand Slam sweep, got to the finals but lost in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, to defending champion Steffi Graf...
MAGICAL THINGS, SHOES. Myths and fairy tales are cluttered with them. There is the old woman who lived in a shoe and the young woman, in Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes, who died for one. Cinderella's glass slippers and Dorothy's ruby pumps still tiptoe around the imagination. In the ancient Indian epic the Ramayana, the exiled king leaves behind a single memorable token: a pair of gold-encrusted shoes. Newlyweds once routinely tied a pair of old brogues behind their coach or car for good luck. In the Middle Ages the well-to-do wore poulaines...