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Amid the latest hoo-ha and brouhaha about toxic culture, a media maven is led to wonder: Has Bob Dole ever read his kids a fairy tale? Or sung a nursery rhyme? Or seen a classic Disney cartoon? In Hansel and Gretel, Jack and Jill, Bambi and Dumbo, the obsessive themes are death and dismemberment. These graphic horror stories tell toddlers that life is a dark forest where parents get killed and kids get eaten. As purveyors of Dole's "nightmares of depravity," Warner Bros. ain't a patch on the Grimm Bros...
...Penn--Frutkin, Wren, Tarr, Hansel; Harvard--Winters (3), Hennessey (3), Colligan (3), Cable (2), Schoyer (2), Cleary, Hall, Chelius, Clark, Maybank, Davison. A: BU--Frutkin; Har--Hall (2), Winters, Hennessey, Colligan, Clark. S: BU--Seth 13; Harvard--Schutt...
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...arts worries about where the next generation of audiences will come from. Hardly anyone does as much about it as Theatreworks/USA, a touring troupe specializing in new musicals. During three decades, it has played to more than 20 million children in every state but Hawaii. Its new HANSEL & GRETEL blends Humperdinck's opera music (ably arranged) with a libretto that softens the grim story by making it a pageant staged by a Salzburg family. The highlight: David Gallo's sets, which are sturdy enough to travel, versatile enough to become a forest or a witch's lair, and ravishing...
...green mosaic. Nor should one miss the iron dragon gate of the Finca Guell, or the crypt of the Colonia Guell -- the chapel of an industrial community for weavers at Santa Coloma de Cervello, half an hour's drive from Barcelona -- or the Parc Guell, with its ravishing Hansel-and-Gretel pavilions and its undulating benches covered in their mosaic of broken tiles; or, of course, the Sagrada Familia...