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Displaying musical talents, describing career aspirations and modelling swimwear, four Harvard students competed in the Miss Greater Boston pageant last Sunday...
Henry V. Through March 25. American RepertoryTheatre, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge. 547-8300.Civil war is at an end and the young king mustturn his attentions to the turmoils abroad. Fromthe tavern at Eastcheap to the fields ofAgincourt, the pageant continues as Hal proveshimself a great soldier and states-man, finallymeeting Katherine, the beautiful daughter of theKing of France, who teaches him his first lessonsin love. Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m. Saturday at 2and 8 p.m. Sunday...
Broadway isn't the only place for grand spectacle. At the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, that Mecca of excess, the Montreal troupe Cirque du Soleil has created a gorgeously surreal, thrillingly theatrical pageant. Acrobats mingle with Adam and Eve, spaceship Earth and a giant snail in a fantasy of rebirth. It plays like the fever dream of some millennial impresario. Call him Siegfried Roy Webber...
...Koehl and Jrees Buddy Holly are brushed, hairsprayed, beribboned and otherwise tarted up before going in front of the judges. Says Buddy Holly's owner, Jan Smith of Wichita, Kansas, a longtime exhibitor of Great Danes (and herself the runner-up for Miss Congeniality in the 1965 Miss Arkansas pageant): "When the ears are too flat, we use cement to make them perky. We use chalk to color the legs, which is fine as long as you don't use copious amounts...
Well, he could hope that A Christmas Carol lasts as long as the Radio City holiday show, which has been going since 1933 and never looked better. Under the direction of Robert Longbottom (Pageant), the show struts the ageless panache of the 36 Rockettes in five precision prances, notably as a parade of wooden soldiers and as Raggedy Anns whose letter blocks eventually spell out merry christmas and a happy new year. A new version of The Nutcracker, with teddy bear dancers as sugar plum fairies, Arabian houris and Chinese pandas, is delicate, funny, winning. The climactic Nativity tableau -- teeming...