Word: musics
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...movie opens with dozens of kids trying out for spots in the freshman class at Performing Arts (the real school it is based on is named Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Perfoming Arts, but that's a mouthful). Because they are mostly unfamiliar faces we can't tell who is going to make it, and it's good fun trying to pick the winners - although the boy who shimmied his hips through "All That Jazz" was robbed. The school's motto, as delivered by Debbie Allen, in the role of Principal Simms - no word...
...playing the kind of miniature version of despicable grown-ups you see on Gossip Girl or, worst of all, starring in a reality show. The kids in this Fame are sexy, cool, smart and wholesome; they may mislead their parents into thinking they are dutifully honing their classical music skills rather than singing hip hop, but they're good kids...
...Jumping from one crisis to another, Kristina may prove not only too epic but too episodic - and far too dour - for a Broadway audience. The age of the serious musicals, your Les Miz and Phantom of the Opera, ended abruptly when The Producers and Mamma Mia! showed that theatergoers preferred perky, gaudy, old-fashioned musical comedies. But Kristina should find a constituency among those who love hearing wonderful music sung by gifted voices. If any naughty folks last night recorded the show, they should immediately post some of its instant classics: Robert's devastating solo "Gold Can Turn to Sand...
...songs. Now that Kristina seems headed for a fuller life in the West End or on Broadway, ABBA fans - all lovers of irresistible tunes that lodge in your internal iTunes and never go away - may have one more chance to tell Benny and Bjorn, "Thank you for the music...
...most of all, Detroiters are proud of their city. They fight to open charter schools. To jail criminals and bring back the rule of law. To band together and renew their neighborhoods. To open restaurants, stores and clinics. To make great music and try to beat the Yankees...