Word: note
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...clear from the first note of the Encores! Follies that the best revivals bring a new clarity to old shows. Director-choreographer Casey Nickolaw, whose recent Broadway work (Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) has been spot-on silly, somehow summoned a perfect reading of the antique text, and piqued in people who'd seen the show before one of those "Eureka!" moments. Now, we got it. We saw the maturity, the emotional wisdom in Goldman's libretto. His story - about two married couples who meet 30 years after the girls, chorines in a Ziegfeld-type revue, met their husbands...
...arms. But the revelation was Victoria Clark as Sally. Clark, who had toiled in Broadway obscurity for decades before earning a Tony for her role as the mother in The Light in the Piazza two years ago, was the one true singer in the lead quartet, mining every note for meaning...
...hope that the scientific community at Harvard can begin to take note of the cognitive science of religion field which, in my view, takes seriously the worldviews held by the various disciplines it represents and provides room for intelligent dialogue between them...
...faithful, and reined in dissident Church theologians. Now, as pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI spends most of his time trying to convince his followers to say yes to the Christian gospel. Indeed his one Encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), surprised some of his longtime critics by the positive note on which he was beginning his now two-year-old papacy. There have, though, been intermittent reminders that the old Ratzinger thinking lives on inside the person of the Pope, including his message at the beginning of his current five-day trip to Brazil: Catholic politicians who support abortion rights...
...note accompanying Sorry, Jones refers to the 1997 Human Rights Commission report that recorded the removal of thousands of indigenous children from their families, and to Australian Prime Minister John Howard's refusal to apologize for the actions of previous governments. In a novel of such resonance and restraint, this epilogue strikes the sole forced note. For Australian readers, at least, the title carries enough emotional weight to speak volumes, and Jones is too subtle and cerebral a writer to suggest a polemical reading of her text. Instead, Sorry is most eloquent expressing a more singular kind of sorrow, while...