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...Olympic champion's hero. The gold medals he won in track and field in 1936 meant something to every athlete. The Olympics that year were held in Nazi Germany, and Jesse Owens, U.S. entrant, won four gold medals in the 100-meter, 200-meter, broad jump and 400-meter relay...
...first American production of Silverlake, an allegorical opera with music by Kurt Weill, originally produced in Germany in 1933, the place and period of Grey's enormously successful Cabaret. Silverlake's theme, the venal rich vs. the virtuous poor, was so politically powerful in 1933 that Nazi storm troopers broke up performances. New York critics were not that harsh, but some deemed the libretto dated and the music not worth Weill. Still, uptown was heady for Grey. In lieu of Broadway's traditional "break a leg" opening night messages, a telegram from Met Tenor Placido Domingo invoked...
Moreover, these explanations are based on all sorts of "liberal" doctrines. President Bok justifies Harberger's appointment on the grounds of "academic freedom." However, who determines what constitutes academic freedom? Bok says he would have "no qualms" appointing a Nazi if he were "qualified." But what is qualified? To Third World people, the fact that someone was a Nazi would mean that (s)he was unqualified. A qualified person would not condone Nazism. After all, the concepts of Nazism and academic freedom are mutually exclusive. President Bok would tolerate the presence of a Nazi, because he would not be directly...
Frederick Freyer never misses a cue as the piano player at the Kit Kat Club. His presence on stage during the more serious scenes back at the boardinghouse is bewildering, however, especially since he also doubles as the insidious Ernst Ludwig, a Nazi goon, and often exits stage left as the pianist, only to enter immediately stage right, as Ludwig...
...MUSICAL FAIRY TALE begins to fall apart when the prospect of parenthood forces Cliff and Sally to look more seriously at their happy-go-lucky lives. The pace of the show picks up, and in a short, confusing scene, a Nazi soldier appears on stage, sings "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," and disappears. Perhaps van Druten wishes the audience to experience the confusion the German people actually felt about what was happening around them. We already know what happened, though, and this mournful scene only puzzles a modern audience...