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...staging is by Des McAnuff, who on Broadway guided Jenkins as Huck Finn in the musical Big River and shaped Blessing's comedy of U.S.-Soviet relations, A Walk in the Woods. This production inaugurates a new main stage at La Jolla Playhouse, outside San Diego, where McAnuff is artistic director. Neither the architect nor the playwright could ask for a more visually seductive showcase...
...answering machine at his 60-acre ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., Keen sings Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. Keen grew up in Alabama, Tennessee and Delaware ("more Huck Finn than Holden Caulfield," he says in his high- pitched foghorn of a voice) and has a doctorate in philosophy of religion from Princeton. His thesis concerned the idea of mystery. "I've always been interested in talking clearly about things that can never really be known," he says...
Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin look-alikes, trailed by a freckle-faced Huck Finn, greet passengers as they come up the gangplank of the Mississippi River's newest paddle-wheeler, Emerald Lady. A Dixieland band lays down tune after tune, while a jokester on stilts tosses colorful doubloons. Waitresses with feathers jutting from their hair sashay through wood-paneled rooms, offering cocktails. As the riverboat pulls out of Fort Madison, Iowa, and steams up and down the Mississippi on a three-hour excursion into the 19th century, it is easy to get swept up in the hoopla. So easy that...
Falsettoland The conclusion of composer-lyricist William Finn's brilliant minimalist trilogy about a man's struggle for sexual identity blends the same style of daffy Manhattan humor (about nouvelle kosher cuisine, opulent bar mitzvah parties and "the lesbians from next door") with the newfound and baffling pain of AIDS...
...department's rationale for the ban is Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids racial or ethnic discrimination by organizations receiving federal funds. "You can't have a whites-only scholarship," says Chester Finn Jr., a Reagan-era education official. "Why should there be scholarships exclusively for minorities...