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Given the medium (marionettes) and the class transgressions present Huyghe’s previous projects—employing forms that include adult Japanese graphic novels, fireworks, Walt Disney characters and figure skating in the service of high art—it is inevitable that snide references will be made to the other puppet-movie now playing in Harvard Square, the satirical Team America: World Police. Because Huyghe’s context is not just the academy, but no less Harvard, his challenge may be greater: as Princeton Professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence...
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This is not to say that Barrie leads an idyllic life; this isn’t a Disney fairy tale, after all. His last play was a flop, his marriage has deteriorated to the point that he and his wife (played by Radha Mitchell) barely speak to one another, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he prefers the company of his dog and his own imagination to most of his peers. This all changes, however, when he meets a family of muses in the park one afternoon. Barrie quickly befriends Sylvia Llewelyn Davies—played with daring and grace by Kate Winslet?...
Children's theater got a major boost in the mid-'90s with the arrival of Disney on Broadway--particularly Julie Taymor's groundbreaking show The Lion King. The show not only proved that so-called children's theater could draw huge family audiences (it has raked in more than $1 billion from its Broadway and worldwide touring companies) but also expanded the vocabulary of the stage, embracing everything from puppetry to African dance. Everywhere in the culture, meanwhile, children's entertainment is crossing over to adult audiences and gaining mainstream cachet, from Harry Potter books to Pixar animation. London...
...serious classical works alongside jazz, show tunes, rock arrangements, and silent film and movie scores. We encourage student work, and do anything that’s fun and zany. Tonight’s concert, “Tooney Tunes,” features music from Looney Tunes, Disney, and beyond...