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Originally, the Met entrusted Aida's direction and design to Franco Zeffirelli, who recreated the city of Paris in the 1981 La Boheme and put the Forbidden City on the stage with his 1987 Turandot. When Zeffirelli's designs turned out to be too big and expensive, Gianni Quaranta, Zeffirelli's set decorator on several films, was engaged instead. Quaranta has conjured up a storybook Nile replete with towering statues, colorful friezes and a couple of skittish horses to pull Radames' chariot during the Triumphal March. Employing the two-tiered hydraulic stage lift a la Franco, Quaranta triggered the evening...
...producer of the new NBC series Midnight Caller. Network viewers today can see a sliver more nudity than they once could (though only from the rear), hear a few more dirty words (though usually later in the evening), and see bullets actually hitting bodies -- all scenes that once were forbidden...
Clutching the TV clicker fiercly, I told my sister that the late night showing of "Heidi" (her old favorite) was forbidden; Letterman would stay. Immediately I could tell from her glare that neither Heidi nor Dave would be tuned in and that I was supposed to go upstairs to my bedroom a.k.a. study...
...this point, The High Road seems on the verge of becoming a distaff Death in Venice, with another cerebral outsider succumbing to forbidden passion for an enchanting youth. But O'Brien does not bring to this situation any of the doomed morbidity that hovers over Thomas Mann's tale. For one thing, Anna is much too brisk and sensible to believe herself trapped by any fate. And the physical world of the Spanish seacoast is too astonishing to allow prolonged brooding. Remembering misty Ireland and rainy London, Anna is constantly dazzled by the light: "The sun blazed and emphasized everything...
THERE are also many viable theater options outside of the theater district. One unique show that also features tables and cocktail service is Forbidden Broadway, a cabaret-style, musical spoof shown in the Terrace Room, a function room turned theater at the Park Plaza Hotel (Arlington stop on the Green Line, 357-8384). The show, now in its fifth year, is revised every season to incorporate newer material, such as the current spoof of the hit Les Miserables. The musical director for the show is veteran Hasty Pudding Theatricals composer David Chase '86. There are no student discount tickets...