Word: kisses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marathon session. The smell of burning pot and ambition filled the theater, as some 500 candidates, more than a hundred each for the major roles, tried out. One unsuccessful competitor recalls that you couldn't tell the Judas candidates from the Jesus candidates, except that some guys "would periodically kiss someone and burst into gales of maniacal laughter." Many were from the Superstar concert companies, as well as from 14 companies of Hair, O'Horgan's biggest...
...reporters in New York. "Sam really fell in love with my writing," Bella later quipped. Masters of the formula farce, the Spewacks conquered Broadway with such hits as Boy Meets Girl (1935) and My Three Angels (1953). They also wrote the text for Cole Porter's classic musical, Kiss Me, Kate...
...year after Forster's death and 58 years after it was written, here is the novel: Maurice. Forster was not quite fair to it. The boys actually kiss each other in bed, and at one heady moment a reference is made to some sort of physical "sharing." But most of the time they do indeed...talk. And very highmindedly, too, invoking Plato, the nobility of male friendship and "the triviality of contact for contact's sake...
...more surprising when Sir Rudolf-who will retire at the end of this season-walked onstage at the Met opening to make a minor announcement and was greeted by a standing ovation from the audience. "I was quite amazed," Bing admitted. "They applauded me!" Then he went off to kiss Maria Callas. "Despite our differences," purred the diva, "he was a great manager...
...Kennedys, and yet there was pretty violent stuff. You see, I have not written a Mass. I have written a theater piece about a Mass. It cannot be performed in a church as a Mass. Yet it is still a deeply religious work. The Communion we give is the kiss of peace, which was a feature of the early Christian Mass. Catholics who heard it have told me it was one of the deepest experiences they ever...