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...group hopes CrimsonClips will both expand HRTV’s scope and help archive visual arts performances and events at Harvard. “We want to capture the Harvard experience; we’re losing so many great events,” he said. “The curtain goes down, and you never see them again. But if they’re filmed and put online, the curtain will stay up.” “We have a number of great shows, and [the site] should publicize both our own programming as well as encourage...
...opera-house performances this year. Because each show is broadcast live, says Met general manager Peter Gelb, "it makes people feel like they're part of this global opera community." Perhaps that's why the audiences are spontaneously applauding arias and standing for their favorite singers during curtain calls. The tenor can't hear the ovation, but it's not really for him anyway. It's for the guy in the eighth row who's never been that close to Nessun dorma before and wants to savor the moment...
After the curtain calls for his 2004 theater piece, Meet the Browns--one of the strange comedy-musical-melodramas that have made Tyler Perry a hero to the older black Christian community--the author-director came out onstage to talk to his devoted audience. He confided that he'd been asked to produce a TV comedy series but turned it down because it couldn't be religious. "Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom?" he said, to murmurs of disapproval from the faithful. "They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin...
...folks he hopes to uplift. But his form of comic melodrama depends on creating emotional extremes, acute cartoons of recognizable behavior, people who hurt and get hurt. Public humiliation is the penance his stage characters must endure before they are absolved in a final embrace and bring the curtain down with a full-throated gospel song...
...fast-paced medley of Bollywood-style songs danced with infectious energy by over 80 members of the senior class. The musical elements of the show were equally fun-loving and energetic. During a Pakistani rock song near the end of the show, dancers crossed the stage behind a light curtain in the back as the instrumentalists traded off short solos and the crowd clapped along. In another fun musical act, the Qawwali, two groups of singers—one male, one female—egged each other on as they debated the nature of love, accompanied by traditional Indian instruments...