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...operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan have held a place of affection among the musically-inclined public for over a hundred years. The Mikado arguably ranks highest on their lengthy list of favorites. In its heyday of 1886, as many as 170 performances are said to have occurred across the country on just one evening. The Players bravely present this classic to a twentieth century audience jaded by MTV, post-modernism and hallucinogens...
Baez's voice was breathy and earthy throughout the concert. It was strong and supple and showed an even greater octave range than in her heyday. Nowhere was this more evident than when Baez set down her guitar to sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Her voice resonated with the strength of experience as it swelled to fill the theater without mechanized amplification...
...figures behind barbed wire. Murdered babies in a bus. Two and a half million people driven from their homes in an orgy of "ethnic cleansing." Detention camps, maybe even concentration camps. Surely these pictures and stories come from another time -- the Dark Ages, the Thirty Years' War, Hitler's heyday. Psychic defenses struggle to minimize, to deny, to forget. Not here; not now. Europeans were supposed to have learned from the last terrible war on their soil not to murder their neighbors. Educated people, on the verge of the 21st century, in a relatively prosperous country that is a party...
...Mingxia is a money tree for her family." Still, that Olympic bonus is less than a fifth of what the Soviet Union offered athletes for gold at Seoul -- and about one-third of 1% of what American gymnast Mary Lou Retton earned from capitalist sources after her Olympic heyday...
What the Broadway musical most needs, short of stuffing the entire theatergoing public into a time machine headed backward, is to make peace with rock music. When the form had its heyday, its songs were the pop mainstream. Now there is no pop mainstream -- music, like the radio that delivers it, has become demographically fragmented -- but rock is the nearest equivalent. So long as Broadway keeps spurning that propulsive sound in favor of Tin Pan Alley bygones and pseudo operettas, it confines its appeal to the elderly of all ages...