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...consistently good, it is the stunning performances of Alexis Toomer, Emily Hsu and Rachel Skiffer as the doowapping narrators Crystal, Ronnette and Chiffon that make Little Shop such a success. In their dynamic "Skid Row" number in the first act the trio perfectly evokes the ambience of the downtown slum where Little Shop takes place. "Downtown, that's your home address, downtown, where your life's a mess, down on skid row..." they sing while leading a group of bums in a dance number straight out of the Apollo...
Strolling through downtown New York is a perilous occupation. At the moment you locate yourself, a crowd of pedestrians swill you into mysterious infernos full of rapacious sellers and frisky animals. Take Greenwich Village: on the surface, a rectangular and organized area, with numerous street-signs and helpful drug-pushers; underneath, where its unconscious beats, is a crazed mass of confusion threatening all sense of direction. Start walking down a road and before long the scenery will change, historical periods will be in flux, and your brain thrown into that charged state between curiosity and insanity...
Sounds terrific. Boston once needed Flynn--his predecessor, Kevin White, grew directionless and tired after rebuilding downtown Boston, his vague ambitions far higher than the mayoralty of the city...
Freshman forward Mike Gilmore hit a trio of 3-pointers in the team's first pre-season game, against St. Mary's, and he may be the downtown threat that the team needs...
...HURRICANE ANDREW WASN'T BAD ENOUGH FOR Florida's tourism industry, now the state is facing a man-made disaster: snipers taking potshots at cars along Interstate 295, conduit for some 80,000 vehicles a day around downtown Jacksonville and the primary route for East Coast snowbirds headed south for Florida's beaches...