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...could call Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat underproduced. Like Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, what started life as a sweet little piece for children has been inflated to epic vulgarity. The revival that opened on Broadway last week stars a sphinx somewhat shinier and more purple than the original, plus smaller versions of the pyramids and New York City's Chrysler Building. There's one lively visual joke: after a famine, the sheep Joseph's family tended reappear as skeletons. On the human scale, the show stars Michael Damian's pectoral muscles, which are on all but nonstop display...
...Fair Lady gave elocution a song and dance? Maybe it's 1955, when this season's Damn Yankees first proved that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets. Perhaps it's as modern as 1968, when this season's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat first displayed the talents of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Or perhaps it's as far back as 1945, when this season's most eagerly awaited musical, Carousel, first revealed heaven on earth. By season's end the year may seem as contemporary as 1972, when the tentatively scheduled Grease first revved its engines, or as antiquarian...
This week O'Brien is sweating out the case of Lloyd Schlup, 32, a man who has been in prison for nearly half his life and who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Friday unless Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan commutes his sentence. Schlup, who was originally imprisoned for stealing a pickup truck in 1978, was convicted for assisting two other men to stab a fellow inmate to death in 1984. Since taking on the case in 1992, O'Brien, a former public defender who now runs the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center, has collected...
...resulting from Supreme Court rulings that attempt to shorten the sometimes interminable appeals process. O'Brien fears that the restrictions may, sooner or later, mean that an innocent man will die because his case was stopped before its full limit of constitutional protections could be tested. He is afraid Lloyd Schlup may be that...
Schlup insists he was never at the crime scene. And O'Brien's staff members found 23 inmates and former prisoners who saw the crime. "Every single one we talked to said that Lloyd was not there." Indeed, the name of another man, living in Chicago and a gangmate of the first two suspects, surfaced repeatedly as the third party. He has never been investigated. A guard has come forward to testify that he encountered Schlup walking casually to the dining room at the time the murder was committed. The prosecution had contended that Schlup ran down the corridors...