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Before the curtain goes up at any concert venue around the country, the headlining act must engage in some backstage banter with local DJs, the children of corporate sponsors and whomever the Teamsters want to impress. The music industry calls this compulsory session the meet and greet, and because the spontaneity is scheduled and the patronage barely disguised, it is often the grimmest 15 minutes of any touring musician's day. But Tim McGraw loves it. He has his road crew set up a tent with a tiny stage and shabby-chic furniture. He keeps everyone plied with Bud Light...
...scores is with the score. It would have been easy for the composer to fall back on a lush, serve-all orchestral cushion. But to his credit, he tries something sparse, minimalist and deliberately discomfiting. In a scene borrowed from a Charles Dickens story (The Signalman), the Act I curtain rises on a bitingly cold railway cutting, telegraph wires whipping ominously in the wind. It's an unsettling, otherworldly sound, and thereafter the score strains to upset expectations; major keys turn to minor with a shudder, songs end in a subdued moan. The arrangement is at its best for Laura...
...attempt to generate more performance space for student musicians, the College has purchased a portable stage and partitioning curtain, which can separate the concert area from the booths on the back wall...
...next week, followed by ?After the Fall? and ?The Boy from Oz? (in two weeks) and ?Wonderful Town? (five weeks). At least the spouses of prominent Republicans will be able to catch these shows. Two others didn?t wait for possible G.O.P. spillage. Last weekend rang down the final curtain on ?Caroline, or Change,? the most affecting musical play I?ve seen in quite some time, and the farce revival ?Sly Fox,? which got a whole new cast, for naught, just a fortnight ago. It?s as if producers couldn?t decide whether to stick out the convention or accede...
...standard equipment on four 2005 models, including the Explorer. The all-new 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee will have optional electronic stability control, which can detect skidding and automatically slow the car, along with a new tire-pressure monitor (rollovers can be caused by a blown tire) and side-curtain air bags. You'll pay extra for some of these features, but they may well help SUVs turn the corner toward improved safety...