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...epic musical makes its way to Boston for the seventh time since its 1985 London debut. Les Mis, a self-described tale of “the passion and triumph of the human spirit,” bases itself on Victor Hugo’s celebrated novel and tells the story of Jean Valjean, a noble fugitive, and his run-ins with determined policeman Javert. 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets $28-$85. Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street...
...Characters like Mandy are easy to ridicule, and in Nell Freudenberger's short story The Orphan, part of her debut collection, Lucky Girls, the author satirizes with efficiency, content to let her targets hang themselves with their own words. But Freudenberger is after more than the easy comedy of young Americans in old Asia. She seeks the unseen forces that bind together families?both biological and artificial?no matter how far apart their individual members roam. At the orphanage where Mandy works with AIDS-afflicted children, the suddenly tender daughter hands an infant to her squeamish, confused mother, Alice...
...Before the title story of the collection was published in the 2001 debut fiction issue of The New Yorker, where Freudenberger worked as an editorial assistant, the 26-year-old had taught English in Bangkok and New Delhi. Four of the five stories in Lucky Girls are drawn from her experiences living among Americans in Asia. In the title story, about a young American woman drifting in New Delhi after the death of her married Indian lover, Freudenberger hits the telling detail again and again, as when her narrator looks at the Taj Mahal and catches "the unexpected view...
Freshman Lee Ann Chang made her collegiate debut one to remember. After teaming up with tri-captain Erica DeBenedetto and juniors Allison Bates and Molly Ward to win the 200-yard medley relay, Chang captured the 100-yard breaststroke in a pool-record time...
...front of cameras since she was 11, as the youngest member of the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Club (in which she rubbed big ears with future pop rival Christina Aguilera and future ex-boyfriend Timberlake). She's been a top pop force since she was 18, when her debut album, 1999's ? Baby One More Time, sold 10 million copies (followed a year later with her 9 million-selling Oops! ... I Did It Again). Despite all that early exposure, she seems at times to have acquired not a shred of media savvy. That lip-lock with Madonna...