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...joined by Man of La Mancha (1965) and Guys and Dolls (1950), and a belated transfer of the off-Broadway hits March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990), now paired in a single evening. In addition are three "new" musicals recycling songs by black composers: Five Guys Named Moe, produced by London impresario Cameron Mackintosh but mounted by Americans around the work of Louis Jordan; Jelly's Last Jam, featuring Jelly Roll Morton music and tap dancers Gregory Hines and Savion Glover; and The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club, a review starring New Orleans songwriter Allen Toussaint...
...party back to the center, Clinton's idea of a well-spent weekend is one given to working on welfare and education reform. Yet when he was introduced at a forum in New Hampshire as the smartest of the candidates, he quipped, "Isn't that a little like calling Moe the most intelligent of the Three Stooges...
...only slowdown in London comes in musicals. The handful of creators who, in various permutations, have brought forth Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and the like have nothing new or imminent. Still, an irresistibly energetic and shamelessly folksy overgrown cabaret show, Five Guys Named Moe, featuring jazz of the 1930s and '40s and nonstop dancing by an all-black cast, has taken London by storm. It is headed for Broadway next April, complete with group singing of calypso bebop and a whole-audience conga line at intermission...
Goals: P--Ed Calkins 2, Andy Moe 2, Justin Tortolani 2, Greg Waller, H--Dan O'Sullivan 2, Paul Faust, Mike Porter, Steve Buetow, Chip Linehan...
...debate over educational vouchers can be seen as a symptom of America's loss of faith in liberal government itself, for public schools have always been the collective institution most closely monitored by the people. If, as Chubb and Moe argue, a free market is the only antidote to educational bureaucracy, then virtually all government programs, save tax collection, are implicitly called into question. Yet the crisis in the schools is so severe that vouchers must be seriously considered, which is why Dick and Jane seem well on their way toward becoming free-market conservatives...