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...real emotional connection with the people onstage, for one thing. The late composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson earns our tears even before we walk into the theater. He died, tragically, of an aortic aneurysm just weeks before his soon-to-be-a-hit Rent opened. Now one of his earlier works, Tick, Tick...Boom!, has been revived off-Broadway. It's a slight, autobiographical piece (with a script worked over by David Auburn, author of Proof) about the struggling composer's own angst at reaching his 30th birthday. Yet this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neurotic makes...
...Whereas Larson's show is sweet and cuddly, Urinetown is blunt and in your face. This Brechtian fable--a sellout hit in its tiny off-off-Broadway theater that is moving to Broadway in August--is set in a city where the water shortage is so dire that private toilets have been outlawed. The play overdoses a bit on winking self-references ("Everything in its time, little Sally," one character says to another. "Nothing can kill a show like too much exposition"), and the promise of sharp political satire is lost on the way to a generic cartoon...
...David Larson, a professor of labor and employment law at Saint Paul?s Hamline University School of Law, feels the Bartell case could send a message to other companies making decisions about employee health care policies. "In a sense, this is something of a landmark case," Larson told TIME.com. "The particulars of contraception haven?t been litigated before - and some of the language used in this case can be extended to other cases. The language does say 'if you choose to cut out certain drug coverage for cost reasons, you?d better be sure you?re not putting one group...
...Does this mean every company in the nation should rush off immediately to charge their lawyers with restructuring their prescription policy? Not necessarily, says Larson. "To keep this in perspective, you have to remember this is a district court in Washington state. So while I?m sure this decision will be read widely and with great interest, the binding precedent doesn?t go very...
...Pforzheimer House, William Edwards, April A. Larson and Ari Nishitani; in Quincy House, Emily C. Bianchi, Lucia R. Henderson, Darryl C. Li, Richard Parr, Christopher P. Thornton and Andrew M. Wolfe; in Winthrop House, Kelly E. Edwards...