Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director Hal Prince, 59, who * had contributed so much to the success of Evita. Lloyd Webber composed the role of Christine with his wife Sarah Brightman's crystalline voice and fragile Pre-Raphaelite looks in mind. The trick was casting the Opera Ghost. His choice was British Actor Michael Crawford, 45, whom he had heard sing in the 1979 London show Flowers for Algernon and who had appeared in such films as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Jokers. "The moment I saw him with Sarah at dinner for the first time, I knew...
...Crawford, who had trained as a boy soprano under Composer Benjamin Britten, responded immediately to the Phantom's soaring tenor line. "I had only to hear the first eight or so bars to know that Phantom was something quite special," he says. "The score sent chills down my spine the first time I heard it, and still does. Andrew's got me singing from the bottom of my heart to the top hair on my head...
...James Crawford, a former writer for EducationWeek and author of a book on bilingual education,said research has proven that bilingual educationis more effective than simply teaching English asa second language. He also said English-onlyteaching "has a lot of potential fordiscrimination...
Blaming Chavez and U.S. English for "reducingbilingual education to a narrow political issue,"Crawford said the federal government must use itseducation policy to preserve the culture of ethnicminorities. He said that scrapping federalrequirements for bilingual education would hurtthe students' education as a whole because it"would produce exactly what [bilingual education]has tried to avoid"--the problem of losing ethnicidentity...
...clever idea, though the lighting there is so bad that it is difficult to see even the actors' facial expressions. The actors do get to jump in the pool occasionally and thrash about on innertubes and rubber rafts. Its mildly amusing, as is the production's Joan Crawford-sized obsession with coat hangers...