Word: improvements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musical shorts from 1929 to 1941, is something to sing about. They reveal terrific artists--Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers--in their early prime, making the music that made them famous. The tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. A melody can suddenly improv into Rhapsody in Blue or Chopin's Funeral March or 'Deed I Do. Half a century before rap, Louis Armstrong was already sampling...
...originally going to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' in Leverett, but it was sold out, so my friend and I went to an acting improv workshop in Mather House," said Ethan S. Brown '99. "It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I was really glad I happened to end up there. Plus, it was free, and that...
Badu's voice isn't cuddly or cozy; it's sharp and metallic at points, wounded and sad at others. Most of the songs on Baduizm are slow, supple and subtle. Certainly, with its naked gurgling bass, feels like a wee-hours jazz improv and sounds like a love ballad; it's actually a look at the dysfunctional "love affair" America has with its black citizens. Drama, despite its title, starts placidly but later crests as Badu laments symptoms of modern life: "race relations/ segregation/ no occupation/ world inflation...
...Secrets & Lies A white working-class London woman and her long-lost black daughter, unaware of each other's existence for almost 30 years, are reunited in this unexpectedly sunny drama from Britain's Mike Leigh, the improv impresario known for corrosive studies of family breakdowns. An epic in miniature, S&L is nearly 2 1/2 hours of bruising tenderness and bravura acting, yet it sails along with the expectation that some families can end up with the happiness they have worked so hard to avoid. Expect Brenda Blethyn, a teary tornado as the mother, to be in an aisle...
Along with Harvard's other improv group, the Immediate Gratification Players, OTI's brand of comedy seeks to make its audience laugh through acting games and funny skits...