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President Neil L. Rudenstine returned this weekend from a two-week tour of Japan that included meetings with its emperor and other top officials in the government, business and educational sectors...
Rudenstine met with most of the top leaders of the Japanese government, including Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and present and former prime ministers, as well as the current foreign minister and the ministers of education and finance...
...double dose of fairy tale fun, several energetic young-at-heart performers give new spirit to The Emperor's New Clothes and A. A. Milne's Ugly Duckling. The production, entitled "Ugly Ever After," provides a much needed alternative to often humorless and lengthy campus productions. And the low, low ticket price of one dollar makes this package hard to resist...
...nearly straight casting of The Emperor's New Clothes and the allegorical nature of the production (God is repeatedly invoked, albeit ironically, as the ultimate benefactor) make it less immediately appealing than the knee-slappingly funny Ugly. Nonetheless, it too left Friday's appreciative audience giggling throughout...
Some of the set design by Loy Arcenas is ingenious, like the wall of Chinese faces with moving eyes and the emperor's throne in The Real Manchu set-within-a-set. Costume designer William Ivey Long demonstrates his creative gift particularly with spectacular Chinese robes and headdress for The Real Manchu outfits and convincingly WASPy clothes for Linda. Combined, this crew and cast have the most Tonys, Obies, and Drama Desk awards imaginable; with some reworking and refining, the deck is stacked for them on Broadway...