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Though his ability to wrap his voice around a romantic lyric arguably ranked him near Elvis, Sinatra and Lady Day, the pop balladeer (and jazz pianist) Nat King Cole is unfortunately perhaps best remembered today as Natalie's dad. Epstein's insightful new book--best read while listening to Cole's rereleased album The Christmas Song--should remedy things. The biographer sometimes digs too deep into esoterica, spending pages analyzing the lyrics of Straighten Up and Fly Right, for example. But when he recounts the singer's personal struggles, including a shocking 1956 onstage kidnapping attempt by Alabama racists...
...view now is a sampler of works by member artists Jackie Bayne, Tom Cole, Michael Long, Erica Moody, Steve Morell, Rebecca Tasker and Mitch Rosenberg, selected by Bernie Toale of the Bernard Toale Gallery. Of note are Steve Morell's precious schoolroom-esque doodles and Tom Cole's incisive installation art-cum-social commentary. Next year, watch for an all-student show curated by Howard Yezerski of Yezerski Gallery...
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...starring role in the new Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate. Playing the head of an acting troupe performing The Taming of the Shrew, Mitchell is the undisputed star of both the show and the show within a show. Yet he has to cede most of the best Cole Porter numbers (Why Can't You Behave?, Too Darn Hot) to others and spends most of his time playing mock Shakespeare and bickering with his ex-wife and co-star, deliciously played by Marin Mazzie. That's one reason Mitchell never much liked the musical. "I thought the show...
...Well, Cole Porter, the musician and artist, would turn over in his grave. A few times. But Cole Porter, the entertainer, would smile indulgently. Rockin' the Boat Theater Company's rendition of Anything Goes has some serious work to do in the area of, well, let's say polish, but the show itself is so well-written that in combination with a few outstanding individual performances, it rises to the point of being good fun at the very least. And in its own way, the lack of polish adds a little folksiness to the show that even Porter himself might...