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...sweet-faced black girl who plays Velma Kelly is belting out And All That Jazz like she's gunning for a Tony. This close-to-home version of Chicago is the brainchild of Wasfi Kani, founder of Pimlico Opera, a small touring company. In 1991, the outfit put on a production of Sweeney Todd in Wormwood Scrubs, one of Britain's most notorious men's prisons, using lifers as cast and crew. It was a success - tickets sold well, critics loved it, and nobody escaped. Since then, the company has collaborated with a different prison every year on musicals like...
...That Jazz.”But by Friday, after 100 auditions, Hanley has found solace in his ever-present daydreams of glamour and success. He sits on a huge, red, exercise ball that’s sitting, inexplicably, in a basement corner. Bouncing a little, he talks about the outfit that he’s decided to wear to the premiere of “Chicago.”“I don’t want to be stuffy,” he says, but “I wanna look elegant.” If Common Casting...
...Destroyer’s Rubies,” the sixth proper LP from Bejar and his stellar art-rock outfit, Destroyer, has all the things that make a typical Bejar record great: plaintive acoustic guitars, cryptic lyrics, and a heavy dose of melodrama...
...perfecting an entirely new skill, which could change this region as much as the wars in which he has fought have: drilling for oil. Since late November, he has toiled about 30 ft. aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades, by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From the top, there is a panoramic view of the hills around his tiny village of Tawke, where 30 families eke out a meager living herding sheep. It hardly looks like the location for a major economic boom. "We are poor," he says, sitting...
...life wasn’t all just circus fun. On top of performing two shows each day, Max also attended school five days a week, inside what he calls “a pop-up trailer that resembled a sardine can.” A professional tutoring outfit toured with the circus; since Binder declared at a young age that he wanted to go to Harvard, getting a good education was important. The six months that Binder has been at Harvard have been the longest he has ever lived in one place. Binder says that dorm living is a step...