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This is the travelling through time. In the current Loeb Mainstage production, Eric Overmyer's On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning), three game but proper ladies set out in 1888 to explore Terra Incognita, and end up eating Cool Whip in Nicky's nightclub in 1955. On the way, they find themselves in many a humorous situation--most of which turn on the juxtaposition of a Victorian lady with almost anything especially - and dispense marry an anachronistic bonmot...
...doors but concluded it was not serious enough to require immediate repair. The weather on Tuesday was bad -- winds gusting to 62 m.p.h., raising seas as high as 32 ft. -- but no worse than usual for this time of year. The ride was bumpy enough, however, to force the nightclub band to stop playing around 8:30 p.m. and to send many passengers to their cabins...
Unfortunately, Walt's story is not over. By the time he gets to the part about owning a Chicago nightclub and advising an over-the-hill Dizzy Dean on career options, Auster's flamboyant inventiveness seems to be spinning its wheels. His clever parable about innocence and its loss comes down to a bumpy landing...
...Stanley Ipkiss dons a mystical mask, and shazam! all cartoon hell breaks loose. His face goes green; his teeth grow as large as porcelain pillows. When he spots gorgeous Tina on a nightclub stage, his eyeballs pop like demented Slinkys, his anvil jaw drops onto the table, and his tongue cascades from his mouth; it's a red carpet for a red-hot princess to walk on. His heart thumps about a yard out of his chest. He lets howl a wolf whistle Jack Nicholson would envy and bashes himself with a huge mallet...
...Zoos concert at the Franklin Park Zoo last Saturday, I went expecting soulful ballads and tearful, aching, "When I lost my lover" types of songs. What I heard there taught me that the Blues is not just Lady Day crooning in a darkened, smoke-filled, hole-in-the-wall nightclub, although that is a part of it. No, the Blues varies from James Brown to the gospel troup Blind Boys from Alabama. It goes from funk to jazz to rock-n-roll to country. But all of these are not subsets of the Blues. I suppose they are considered...