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...Book, Choreography, Lighting, Actor (Ben Harney), Actress (Jennifer Holliday) and Featured Actor (Cleavant Derricks). The prizes it didn't take - for Best Musical, Score, Direction and Featured Actress - all went to Nine, itself quite a suave piece of musical theater but not in the class of the Bennett extravaganza...
Blessed with unseasonably perfect weather, Harvard celebrated its 14th annual Arts First festival this past weekend, a showcase of over 200 student art performances.Organized by the Office for the Arts (OFA), the springtime arts extravaganza featured venues of all shapes and sizes, from co-ed a cappella concerts to Japanese tea ceremony demonstrations. This year’s festivities, featuring a combination of dancers, singers, visual artists, actors, and musicians lead outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers to describe it as “one of the most enjoyable weekends of the year.”And the artists themselves...
...think you'd better act quickly, this still struck me as a harbinger of... something. New York City's northern suburbs, where I live, are home to women who until recently were waiting for the day they could trade their Ford Expedition for an Excursion, maybe some day an Extravaganza that was even more impossible to park. We may shop at Whole Foods and buy hormone-free milk for the kids, but natural sensitivity and ecological awareness stopped at the garage door. As a neighbor once explained to me, when she was behind the wheel of her Expedition...
Delight, grocery store--style, translates to a visual and material extravaganza, an ever-changing display of creativity, artistry, abundance, charm, eclecticism, authenticity, originality and extremely high quality, with each element served up with a large dose of surprise, not only because it is designed to do so but also because the age-old American supermarket is so devoid of anything remotely resembling enchantment...
...kind of thing you see and you get excited about,” says Horovitz. “I think what made me realize how good this idea is that you can describe it in one sentence and get people excited.” Thursday’s extravaganza was quirky indeed. Shark attack music—and questionably relevant indie rock—played in the background as the courageous pool viewers settled into their floating devices. Other viewers watched from the grandstands, munching Swedish fish with shark-like enthusiasm. According to Horovitz, the event took over a year...