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...There's lots to love about Encores!, which has found its ideal home on 55th Street in the Moorish architecture of the City Center built by Fiorello LaGuardia to give a home to popular culture at popular prices. (Hence the aptness of the first-ever Encores! show, "Fiorello!") I admire the catholicity of the series, which has spanned six decades of shows in styles from musical comedy and drama to operetta ("New Moon") and tribal love rock ("Hair"). I applaud the whirlwind schedule of each production (first rehearsal to closing night in two weeks flat). I'm won over...
...boast a lush score, preferably with a few standards; (3) have a libretto that today is either amusingly anachronistic or lingeringly poignant; (4) offer strong roles to either contemporary musical theater stars or star-is-born kids; and (5) haven't received full-dress Broadway revivals in decades. The ideal musical, by these criteria, is Rodgers and Hart's 1937 "Babes in Arms." The show's melodic bounty still astonishes: "Where or When," "I Wish I Were in Love Again," "My Funny Valentine," "Johnny One-Note," "The Lady Is a Tramp"... Care to sing along, anyone...
Denying any involvement in the theft, Mahan said the Mather Department of War was a “goofy crew” with “too much spare time on their hands,” but he commended their efforts “to make Harvard a more ideal conception of college...
...ideal academic on practical life of politics,” said Samuel Beer, the Eaton professor of the science of government emeritus. “He had the right balance and right mind...
...She’s a visionary, she’s really good at seeing the ideal picture and at bringing people together,” says blockmate Janet H. Yueh...