Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foot, as well as accustomed to the fast pace that O'Morgan likes and that they had to follow in putting the show together. O'Horgan took over at a moment of crisis in August, and eventually had to cast Superstar's 40 parts in a two-week 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...
...reason that O'Horgan's staging is a marathon exercise is that Lloyd Webber's music never stops?a rarity for Broadway musicals. The musical score has been criticized for being something less, or more, than rock. It is, in fact, an elegant pastiche, swiftly paced and highly styled, that does not sound like show music but has something for everybody: a curtain-raising blues number to loosen up the audience, a winsome torch song sung to the sleeping Jesus by an awed Mary Magdalene, and a campy Charleston-like piece that allows King Herod, outrageously turned...
...Belleville, N.J. One of 14 children born to an Irish immigrant couple in the Australian Outback, young Reggie hunted kangaroos and sold their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later fought alcoholism, then returned to the sport in the 1940s as a referee...
...Gaulle, and Janis Joplin were all dead. I had seen only one newspaper in the fourteen months at the interrogation prison; otherwise I only heard whatever the Secret Police decided to tell me--which didn't include a Harvard Satirical troupe performing nude on stage or that Encounter and Marathon were now American rages. In fact for me and most of the other political prisoners the only way for us to "relate to our environment" were not Encounter sessions but by rapping out morse code messages on walls, ceilings, and heater pipes until our knuckles were...
...pool gets even more crowded, so that the situation becomes really impossible, other regulations might be useful. The pool could be opened at 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. Swimmers training for the Boston lighthouse swim or sidestroke marathon swimmers should be encouraged to use the pool in off-hours. With five minutes instruction, most swimmers could vastly improve the efficiency of their exercise and would need less time...