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...controversy, the drama, the intrigue around Lev’s formal goes far deeper than that. Love, democracy, betrayal, financial woes, and the uber-fancy Top of the Hub all played into this story. Find out more about this soap opera after the jump...
...advertised a month of free medical insurance, but found it difficult to follow through. "For some reason, medical insurance companies don't like to give away insurance to strangers." he says. Some people exchange business cards but the group's careers are so diverse - at one point, an unemployed opera singer gives an impromptu performance - that for the most part, they just talk about the competitions and how little money they have in their bank accounts. (See the top 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...urban slums, race prejudice, the scourge (ah, the '50s!) of "juvenile delinquency." It was also a groundbreaking marriage of pop entertainment and "high culture": choreography that featured classical ballet moves, a score with elements of modernist art music, and a story whose tragic arc was as close to grand opera as the American musical had come. (See the top 10 theater productions of the past year...
...some of the fault, I think, lies in the original script, which might be hefty enough for a sung-through opera but here seems too thin to live up to its ambitions. I don't expect a stage musical about street gangs to have the grit or nuance of the better Hollywood films of the same era, like Blackboard Jungle or Rebel Without a Cause (though a cast of gang members who didn't look like they stepped out of a Chorus Line audition might help). But I do want a love story with at least a hint of conviction...
Kentridge has borrowed from the imagery of that avant-garde, the ecstatic and utopian imagery of Vladimir Tatlin and Kazimir Malevich, for a production of The Nose--Shostakovich's 1930 opera based on the Gogol story about a Russian bureaucrat who awakens one morning to discover that his nose has left his body and begun to pursue its own career up the social hierarchy--that the Metropolitan Opera in New York City will mount next year. The San Francisco show, which was organized by Mark Rosenthal, a curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., climaxes...