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...Broadway biggies are here: Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Jelly's Last Jam, The Most Happy Fella, Five Guys Named Moe, The Will Rogers Follies, The Secret Garden, Once on This Island, Grand Hotel and, in an earlier gestation, Falsettos. The ardent browser will find off-Broadway hits (Song of Singapore) and fizzles (Stephen Sondheim's Assassins) and even the season's notorious flops on Broadway (Nick & Nora) and off (Eating Raoul). If Moose Murders had been a musical, someone would now be recording...
...best of today's pop music. Broadway is now the museum of the American musical. Guys and Dolls, for all its snazz and lilt, is a faithful revival of Loesser's 1950 hit. Crazy for You is a jolly update of Gershwin's 1930 Girl Crazy. Jelly's Last Jam is a spiked showcase for the rags and blues of Jelly Roll Morton, who flourished in Gershwin's day. Tourists go to these "new" shows with the same nostalgic avidity they bring to a "new" Matisse exhibition at the Museum of Modern...
Though C-SPAN does not use a rating service, and never knows for sure how many people are watching, Lamb receives hundreds of letters a week (Ronald Reagan and Frank Zappa are fans), and viewers jam the phone lines on the call- in shows. "This election, people want to ask their own questions and not have a bunch of talking heads making decisions for them," says Lamb. Those who disagree with Lamb know where to reach him -- as long as they don't mind talking...
...BANDS OF SUMMER BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN -- GENESIS -- GRATEFUL DEAD -- BONO OF U2 -- ERIC CLAPTON & ELTON JOHN -- METALLICA & AXL ROSE OF GUNS N' ROSES -- HAMMER & HIS ENTOURAGE -- LOLLAPALOOZA '92 WITH RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS -- ICE CUBE -- THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN -- PEARL JAM & MORE Touring shows are booming again, as superstars hit the road with performances in which the sounds are enhanced -- and sometimes swamped -- by high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects and gimmicks, from floating autos to body piercing...
...Caribbean cooking. Amnesty International, Greenpeace and the National Rifle Association are there. And -- oh, yes -- there's also a concert. In fact, quite a concert, with a nine-hour lineup of alternative bands including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, the Jesu and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam and Lush...