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...because Cyrano wears his soul with panache, a plume of the lyric spirit. He has the brio of a Don Juan, yet he dares not woo the beautiful and shallow Roxane for fear that his monstrous nose will render him ridiculously ugly in her eyes. And so he puts his words of eloquence, passion and longing at the service of the handsome and inarticulate dolt Christian, whom Roxane fancies. Cyrano also possesses some of the romantic chivalry of Don Quixote. He tilts at the crass, compromising windbags of this world. He has an in nate gallantry that makes his last...
represents that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Out Barbie doll President, with his Barbie doll wife and his box-full of Barbie doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us: the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts, on nights when the moon comes too close...
...such action would, as one Congressman describes it, "rock the world." Practically no one expects it to happen. There is in fact a nightmarish quality to all such speculation. How could a "third-rate burglary" grow to these monstrous proportions...
Parker's life was as frantic as his music was creative. He said that he wanted to hear Schoenberg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Bartok-but he could never find the time. Married twice, his amorous escapades were infamous. He was charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living...
...first time in over ten years (apparently) a Loeb mainstage production was to be theater in the round. The floor was painted with bright concentric circles of color, and the set, still dormant and in parts, promised to be glitteringly enormous: it was clear that this was some monstrous extravaganza rumbling and shuffling, itching to rear up and come to birth...