Word: extravaganzas
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...There's no stage in KA, but it's great theater. Explain. OK. This martial-arts extravaganza from Cirque du Soleil (playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas) is performed on, and above, two revolving platforms. As the artists cavort on a boat, or fight a battle, or swing through a forest scene, the ground is literally moving under their feet. As conceived by Robert Lepage, the innovative Canadian writer-director, the $165 million action musical is unquestionably the most technically complex show ever devised, achieving marvels Broadway is too timid and strapped even to dream of. The first...
...version is still marginally validated by its 40 minutes of car chases. The automotive craziness and special effects are almost as heart-pounding and realistic as that of the remake. While many critics insist that remakes are never as good as originals, H.B. Halicki’s original heist extravaganza contradicts conventional wisdom. Even with special features about Halicki’s life and extra car chases, the Collector’s Edition of “Gone in 60 Seconds” is stale and massively overshadowed by the newer model...
Happy birthday, Mozart! Well, almost. Jan. 27, 2006 marks the composer’s 250th birthday, making this concert season a worldwide Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart extravaganza...
...Fifth grade was my first play. A teacher at our school always wrote a play every year. I was originally not in her class, and she asked for me to be in her class, so I starred as Bad Bart in our copyright infringement extravaganza known as “Sundown Oklahoma,” a combination of many different musicals kind of strung together, and it was a lip-synching musical extravaganza, so we had a CD, and then I would mouth the words and do choreography. And that was a stunning success...
...seldom few who harbor objections to elitism on moral principles. From this envy and disdain, stereotypes have emanated widely. But, at least for Isis, some of the worst stereotypes of Harvard’s private social organizations seem to be proved true—the punch book is an extravaganza of vapidity, cattiness, self-praise, and insecurity...