Word: geneã
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...heyday of the big band who plays backup to the headline stars. His story serves as a eulogy for the jazz era which faded with the onset of rock ‘n’ roll. On a more intimate level, Side Man also explores the way that Gene??s passion for jazz rules and ultimately ruins his personal life. Infused with wry humor, the Tony-award winning show demonstrates that the life of a professional artist is never simple: music is at once Gene??s sole source of spiritual manna and his proverbial Achilles?...
...can’t do it naturally,” he explains. Despite the narrative’s virtuosic leaps across time periods, the troupe of highly experienced actors are encouraged to perform naturally—or, as Kenneth P. Herrera ’03, who plays one of Gene??s cronies, urges during warm-up, “Act freely and without shame...
...narrative is bound together by the reveries of Gene??s son Clifford (William J. Musgrove ’06), realized through a plethora of audience addresses, flashback sequences and a fluid minimal set suggestive of a more substantive world. Kanter says he chose the Ex because there is no clear delineation between actors and audience. Through these devices, he hopes “the audience will become active participants in the show...
...about the “selfish gene,” championed by one of Gould’s critics, Richard Dawkins. Gould devotes about 50 pages in Chapter 8 of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory to explaining why he believes that the “selfish gene?? argument is wrong—“just factually wrong.” For Gould, natural selection “also works on groups within species, it works on species. It can work on whole clades, which are groups of related species. A lot of what Dawkins and [E.O.] Wilson...