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...preparation for a typical musical has its familiar anxieties: cutting a favorite song, replacing a dialogue scene, finding some extra business for the star. That's nothing compared with the three-year ordeal of bringing Middle-earth to life. The mostly British creative team, beginning with playwright Shaun McKenna, had to figure out how to choreograph the complex battles Tolkien described; how to visualize the dozen realms in the saga and the dozens of characters of many species; how to blend narrative, drama and music in a three-act production--and do it all without retakes or post-production computer...
...especially as the Alberta oil sands and proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline strengthen Canada's position as a prime energy supplier to the U.S. The irony is that Harper will be able to build on foundations laid by departing Canadian ambassador to the U.S. (and prospective Liberal rival) Frank McKenna, whose blunt style and experience as an ex-politician have raised Ottawa's profile in Congress. "He's significantly improved our game down here," says a senior embassy staff member...
...contender who seems to most flutter the Liberals' hearts--and those of their Bay Street backers--hasn't yet entered the field. Former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna made front-page headlines when he resigned last week as U.S. ambassador, a step observers consider a prelude to his long-expected return to politics after sojourns in diplomacy and corporate life. But despite having been elevated by default into the front runner's slot, McKenna, 58, has given no hint of his plans. "He's interested in public life," says a confidant. "But running for the leadership would mean...
...dances set to music from commercials. TAPS served up a delightfully cheesy Mentos commercial and a well-executed Gap Khakis piece, while Mainly Jazz delivered solid performances in their renditions of an iPod commercial and an intricate, high-energy Pepsi commercial featuring the gymnastic feats of Elizabeth C. McKenna ’08. Both groups benefited from appropriately selected costumes, especially Mainly Jazz’s opening piece set to Lenny Kravitz’s “Lady” (the “Alias” theme song) and the TAPS presentations of “Nickelodeon Medley?...
...quite up to it. He is thunderously imposing in the court scenes but not free enough when howling, half-maddened, on the heath. Otherwise, the energetic farewell production by Stratford Artistic Director John Hirsch is strikingly played, notably by Richard McMillan as Edgar, Lewis Gordon as Gloucester, and McKenna as a passionate, not just saintly, Cordelia. In an echo of Twelfth Night, Hirsch also features the Fool, whom Nicholas Pennell, unbearably mannered as Malvolio, plays with clearheaded reason and heartbreaking foresight. Together, the shows remind what should be an envious U.S. that its neighbor has a grand if at times...