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...winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; in New York City. Known during the musical's golden age as the creative half of "The King and Cy," Feuer oversaw every detail of his shows, sometimes taking the director's seat. Famously tough?he feuded with George S. Kaufman, Bob Fosse and Frank Loesser?he discovered Julie Andrews, whose career he launched with 1954's The Boy Friend, and helped turn I Love Paris and C'est Magnifique?from Cole Porter's critically panned hit show Can-Can?into standards...
...winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; in New York City. Known during the musical's golden age as the creative half of "the King and Cy," Feuer oversaw every detail of his shows, sometimes taking the director's seat. Famously tough--he feuded with George S. Kaufman, Bob Fosse and Frank Loesser--he discovered Julie Andrews, whose career he launched with 1954's The Boy Friend, and helped turn I Love Paris and C'est Magnifique--from Cole Porter's critically panned hit show Can-Can-- into standards...
...However dismissive Kaufman the writer was to the political process, Kaufman the director knew how to put on a splendid show. Of Thee In Sing, then and now, begins with convention delegates bearing such placards as "Wintergreen - the Flavor Lasts," "Vote for Posterity and See What You Get" and the meta-cynical "Turn the Reformers Out." The first act climax, set in Madison Square Garden, intersperses the political rhetoric with a wrestling match; the combatants briefly pause in a double-scissors lock to applaud one of the speeches, which is interrupted by the announcement of a hockey or baseball score...
...Girl So Fair," a hymn to Miss Devereaux's allure, the pols sing: "What a charming epiglottis! / What a lovely coat of tan! / Oh, the man who isn't hot is / Not a man!" The Encores! production, staged by John Rando (who directed the wonderful 1998 revival of the Kaufman-Gershwin Strike Up the Band), makes Kaufman's old whine bubble like new wine. Pristinely faithful to the original, down to a film clip of the MGM lion, crowing instead of roaring, the show has a brisk, canny bounce matched only by ... well, by The Drowsy Chaperone. Rando festoons John...
...single” status might be a strategic decision. “If you are looking to meet strangers, why should you be bashful about telling strangers you are looking to meet somebody?” said Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Jason A. Kaufman ’93, who teaches Sociology 153, “Media and the American Mind.” “The internet has become a primary marketplace for romantic relationships, and Facebook is as good as any personal site for finding a romantic interest,” Kaufman said. But increasingly...