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...whether he'd turned out right if he went bad, the show could have been a mix of the amateur ABBA show "Mamma Mia" and London's longest-running bad musical, "Blood Brothers" (15 years and it hasn't had the grace to close). But the Tim Firth book weaves the songs smartly around a cleverly developed situation, and director Matthew Warchus moves the dense human traffic with lightning precision. Even the dancing's good. Run - fly - to London before the show, which won the Olivier Award for Best Musical, closes. You have two weeks...
...hydraulic accumulator, which condenses the power into a motor that drives the generator. David Baird, managing director of Babtie, the engineering group that is working with Ayre, thinks tidal stream power has a big future. "Twice a day the North Sea drains in and out of the Pentland Firth," he says. "We estimate that using tidal stream generators we could meet all of the renewable energy needs of the U.K." The Severn Estuary was chosen to test the new technology because it has the world's highest range between high and low tides, around 12 m, and during the Severn...
What a Girl Wants, the story of a New York City teen who seeks out her English-aristocrat dad (Colin Firth), takes the easy route of proving Bynes' appeal by making oafs and prigs of the Brits. But in this fable of father finding and mother hugging, Bynes shows her mastery of the pratfall--in one scene, off a fashion-show catwalk and into Prince Charles' lap. She also expertly editorializes with her giant green eyes, which could be out of a Keane or Cocteau painting. She bats, crosses or demurely averts them until the viewer yells uncle, or benignly...
...Importance of Being Earnest (May 17): Director Oliver Parker, who also shot Wilde’s droll An Ideal Husband for Miramax in 1999, reunites on Earnest with Husband’s Rupert Everett, teaming him this time with Reese Witherspoon, Dame Judi Dench and Colin Firth. Despite the film’s cumulative pedigree, its promotional footage looks weak; the movie should be early summer fluff...
...experiencing the very act of dying. The slowness of this page is terrifying.” As the final notes died out, an interval of silent, respectful awe finally gave way to a thundering standing ovation for Ozawa. A humble and diminutive man, he repeatedly acknowledged BSO timpanist Vic Firth, who is retiring this season after 50 years with the orchestra...