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This is Corinne E. Funk's final column...
...seems to have noticed. Nearly all this season's big musicals are arriving, as usual, in the last two frantic weeks before the Tony Award nominations. And far from showcasing a new generation of downtown talents, like Rent's Jonathan Larson or Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk's Savion Glover, this season could pass for a Friars Club reunion of old Broadway tunesmiths, with Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity), John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret), Maury Yeston (Nine) and Leslie Bricusse (Stop the World--I Want to Get Off) all back on the boards...
...Outdoor Music Stage at the Holyoke Center. Ongoing performances of damn good music, including the blues-funk-rock quarter Blue Tantrum and the Harvard Drumming Ensemble (all drumming done by hand). Holyoke Center, Forbes Plaza...
Corinne E. Funk's column appears on alternate Mondays...
...hopes that will include at least a little room for organic, noncorporate funk. "I would like them to leave a little of New York for the old-timers, for New Yorkers," says Fred Hakim, who owns the aforementioned lunch counter and has been working in the area for 56 years. He is still waiting to find out if he will be able to continue operating in his space...