Word: entertainingness
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American musical theater wants to be entertaining. It really does want to make that final step from schlock to pure, uninterrupted musical and theatrical pleasure. For two hours musical theater would like to belt out ribald verse, prance around expressionistic props and execute marginally representational dance numbers, all for the...
"She is very concerned that students view the plays not just as written text but as living pieces of performance," says Shelley Salamensky, a teaching fellow in the course. "In a sense it is theater--her lecture style is extremely entertaining as well as informative and in quoting passages from...
In the closing months of 1994, the Republicans are delighted to discover themselves in just the opposite position. The spectacle of Bill Clinton's tribulations is so irresistible that virtually everyone who ever voted Republican seems to be entertaining the same thought: Hey, I could beat this guy! While there...
In any case, it's silly of Bernhard to attempt to undercut our criticism by predicting it. I personally would rather hear Bernhard sing than bitch any day, as she's gotten downright pathetic lately, but no doubt much of her public feels otherwise. It's not an unreasonable proposition...
In TV, of course, the old traditions are sometimes worth preserving. The two most provocative new shows of the fall revive a venerable genre that has been under-represented of late: the medical drama. CBS's Chicago Hope, created by David E. Kelley (Picket Fences), has name stars -- Mandy Patinkin...