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...snip, snip," and "I used to be a lap-dancing pre-operative transsexual" - and it becomes evident that possibly this is not Bach. Instead, it is British theater's most talked-about new project: Jerry Springer - The Opera, which opens on April 29. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh and the Royal Opera House were all reportedly vying to produce it, but it was National Theatre boss Nicholas Hytner who won out, staging the show during the first season of his directorship. It may seem perverse to take a trashy American TV talk show, on which guests with bizarre emotional problems...
...Fernando E. Daniels ’03, attempting to bring the mack to the comely Louisa K. Mackintosh ’04, ran around the bases in Cambridge Common, thereby working his awkward, girl-ignorant game in a surprisingly literal fashion. She took the opportunity to run a race of her own: the 40-meter dash into Radcliffe Yard, where she lost Daniels by crouching behind a bush. Commented Daniels, “I just don’t get that girl. I ran around the bases, for chrissakes.” Final thought: Daniels may have reached home base...
...seeming terribly modern. Considered by many critics to be the author's finest work, Our Mutual Friend takes a look at the perversions of capitalism in mid-19th century London through two parallel love stories. Suspenseful, subtly rendered and well acted (with an especially compelling performance by Steven Mackintosh as John Harmon, a wealthy young man trying to conceal his identity), this Masterpiece Theatre production should put bad memories of 1998's Great Expectations to rest...
...MACKINTOSH COMES TO THE APPLE
Despite its endless applicability, Les Miserables is successful simply because it is one of the most entertaining pieces of theater to surface during the last decade. In 23,000 performances since Cameron Mackintosh and the Royal Shakespeare Company first produced it in London, thirty-six million people have enjoyed Claude-Michel Schonberg's memorable melodies and Herbert Kretzmer's powerful, alarmingly addictive lyrics...