Word: ghosts
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Granted, one of the happy couples formed at the end of the operetta is composed of a living woman and a ghost. This and other ghastly touches, as well as deftly comic performances, prevent “Ruddigore” from becoming entirely bogged down in its origins...
...paint a wooden lattice. After Thompson designs the set for a scene, Tsurumi sketches the various components of the scene onto backboards and the props that the tech crew has built. While there are a few complicated props—such as actual portraits of the actors for the ghost scenes—that Tsurumi has to paint on her own, many of the cast members help with the more basic paint jobs during their three hours tech requirement.Simultaneously, in the pit, a small, close-knit orchestra patiently practices the musical score.“We’re supposed...
...joint CD/DVD release—the DVD was cancelled because singer/song-writer Jeff Tweedy deemed the footage too “claustrophobic”—the double disc album contains 23 songs, mostly culled from the band’s recent studio effort “A Ghost is Born,” but their 2001 classic “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” is also well-represented. The band appointed well-respected sound engineer Jim Scott (Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers) to cull material from four nights of shows at Chicago?...
...interrogate him because he was suspected of harboring two tons of high explosives and being involved in the bombing of a Red Cross center in Baghdad that killed 12 people. By the time the Seals overcame his violent resistance and dropped him off at Abu Ghraib as a "ghost detainee"--an unregistered prisoner--al-Jamadi had suffered damage to his left eye and facial cuts. He had also been roughed up in a way that may account for the fact that the autopsy revealed six broken ribs. His injuries, which the autopsy concluded could not have caused his death...
...Rosty's Scandal House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski was beset with new questions about alleged improper financial dealings. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Democrat's payroll included ghost employees who either did not work for him or had not done so in years. The wife of a Chicago alderman, for instance, reportedly received a salary for five years after quitting her job in 1987. Rostenkowski is already under investigation by a federal grand jury for allegedly trading free stamps for cash at the House Post Office and allegedly using campaign funds and his office account...