Word: gower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Actually, these days it's just the Derby. Hollywood's old watering hole is now a swing club. That's '90s swing--Panama hats and cocktail dresses plus cell phones and plastic. Smoke and libido still hang in the air. So does the spirit of Sinatra. "Obviously," says Tammi Gower, one of the joint's owners, "Sinatra was the epitome of cool." On the night after the great man died, the Derby observed a moment of silence. Then Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers bit into...
...adolescents--sets the stage for the play's ruling aesthetic: a massive, hallucinatory flashback to middle school. The "players," a group of kids whose dress and language evoke a sort of archetypal, semi-mythical 1980s Experience, are unwillingly pressed into service as actors by a terrifying bag lady (Gower, the play's narrator, here played with an alarming intensity by Jessamyn Conrad '00). Since they retain their eighth-grade personalities, the romancing and sexual innuendo of the first half of the play is spiced up with impromptu fist fights, Fritos breaks and such literary and urbane interpolations as "Oh, shit...
Julia Ringma North Gower, Ontario...
...American cities before the end of 1995, (it's in Pittsburgh this week) with Broadway and an international tour projected to follow. Staged and choreographed by veteran performer Lee Roy Reams under the supervision of composer Jerry Herman, the show has all the snap and style one remembers from Gower Champion's original production, which won a record 10 Tony Awards (Channing beat out Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl). Exceptfor its confused and too hasty resolution, Michael Stewart's book -- about a meddlesome, matchmaking widow -- craftily melds song and dance. Corny? Sure, but also funny, and these days...
...Willy Wonka booth, a magician dressed asthe mythical chocolate factory owner entertainedpassersby. Wonka representative Richard Gower saidhis company's newest venture is "Radical Red andBoppin' Blue Razzberry Nerds...