Word: joplinã
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...dark, rainy Saturday evening, thunder came from Lowell Lecture Hall, where TAPS, Harvard’s undergraduate tap dance company, performed original pieces to music such as “We’re in the Money” from “42nd Street” and Janis Joplin??s “Mercedes Benz.” Although a relatively small group of eight members, their dancing filled the room in “Tapped Out,” their money-themed spring show. The performers were percussionists as well as dancers—with...
...rise and fall of iconic 1960s rock vocalist Janis Joplin based on letters that Joplin wrote home to her parents. In the two-actor set, singer-actress Katrina Chester (“Sex and the City”) portrayed Joplin as she lived hard and drank hard, convincingly mimicking Joplin??s raspy singing voice and incendiary stage presence in the live performance of 19 Joplin classics. Meanwhile, actress Morgan Hallett, delivering most of the spoken script, embodied a reflective Joplin as a doting and guilt-racked daughter. Summer audiences and critics lauded this play’s summer...
...generate sufficient revenue to afford them. The field once showcased numerous and various cultural events—including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a 1906 production of Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon” put on by the Classics Department with real horses and chariots, and Janis Joplin??s last live performance in the summer of 1970. A weather-resistant stadium would allow for the flowering of such events again...
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