Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clayton] McCaffery scored his goal and we thought it was nice for him. Then [Earl] Cronan and [Bruce] Gardiner put it in, and we were all thinking, damn, we came so close...
...this season's first musical, She Loves Me, made its original debut? Or 1960, when this season's Camelot first put castles in the air? Or perhaps 1956, when this season's My Fair Lady gave elocution a song and dance? Maybe it's 1955, when this season's Damn Yankees first proved that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets. Perhaps it's as modern as 1968, when this season's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat first displayed the talents of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Or perhaps it's as far back as 1945, when this season's most eagerly awaited...
Glittering on the horizon are Carousel, in a staging that is already a hit in London, and Damn Yankees, now a smash at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. Both concern the collision of the supernatural and the everyday, the former with tragic dimensions and the latter with bawdily comic ones. Carousel has been reimagined in its physical production; Yankees, full of passe baseball references and bygone mores between men and women, has undergone a revamping of its book. Both have the potential to make the best possible case for revivals: they are far better than anything new that...
...life they probably are), and almost all the male characters look like beefy, red-neck jerks (which in real life they may or may not be, for all I know or care). And though we might eventually figure out who's who, at no point do we give a damn...
...There are the hot-pink napkins placed on the nearly fluorescent green tables, and the random rainbow-colored paintings hanging on the dramatically white walls. It's almost as though they were trying to simulate how Pepto-Bismol works inside one's stomach. The whole mess is just too damn loud. But then again, the spicy, fruity food actually blends in quite nicely with this decor...