Word: extravaganza
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This LOTR can't match Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas martial-arts extravaganza Kŕ for soaring athleticism or technical legerdemain. The visualization of battle scenes is often pedestrian, and toward the end, the choreography makes the Orcs look less like brutal mercenaries than clumsy backup singers. But if the show's ingenuity stumbles now and then, its narrative is always clear and plangent. It locates the melancholy soul at the heart of Tolkien's adventure story...
...point, Bilbo, the Hobbit whose accidental custodianship of the ring would lead to the War of Middle-Earth, plaintively asks, ?Don?t adventures ever have an end?? For the producers of this stage extravaganza - TIME got an inside peek for a forthcoming story - the answer is: not this one, not yet. After the show's much-anticipated opening in Toronto on Thursday, they plan a London opening of LOTR a year from now, then Berlin or Hamburg. Contracts with the Canadian co-producers require that Toronto is to be the show?s only North American venue for 18 months...
...suppose the point of the whole extravaganza is to show the pocketbooks how splendidly Harvard is caring for their children. And since the food is so good, I don’t really mind the not-so-subtle attempt to pull wool over the eyes of gullible junior parents. But this marks the extent of my tolerance for spin, and the College should realize it marks the extent of its practicality as well...
...It’s great to be able to work with groups in schools,” said Sean Carney, one of six Spidersplat employees to attend and participate in the paintball extravaganza...
...There are Viennese opera balls on the social calendars of many big cities. But there is only one Vienna Opera Ball. The annual extravaganza that has spawned countless international imitators takes place in the Austrian capital's State Opera house on Feb. 23?and if you haven't got one of the 5,000 or so tickets yet, you'd better start working the phones. To the old-money types and aristocrats that once made up the bulk of the guest list, the present-day event has been diminished by the inclusion of pop singers, politicians, movie stars and even...