Word: poignant
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...INCH John Cameron Mitchell, who co-wrote this off-Broadway hit, also plays the "internationally ignored" song stylist who changed sexes to escape East Germany. Part nightclub monologue, part drag musical, the show has a score that outrocks Rent and a script that is by turns funny, outrageous and poignant...
...LINDBERGH His 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic made him, at 25, the most famous person on the planet. A. Scott Berg records what happened to the aviator before, during and after his transcendent triumph. The later life proves especially poignant, not only because of his child's murder. Lindbergh came to dislike commercial aviation and was accused of pro-Nazi sympathies. A hero who flew so high became a troubled human back on the ground...
Throughout, O'Donnell paints a subtly poignant picture of a young man struggling with a dual identity: as the child of a modest Irish-Catholic background and as a well-connected graduate of prestigious "Hale University." Ask yourself how many contemporary comic novels have dealt with the issue of class, and you will come up with a short list. Moreover, ask yourself how many manage to skewer Swedish cinema, performance art, silly doctoral theses and the "Poverty Barn" along the way, and you'll begin to see why this one is such a treat...
...trio of dancers, Kimberlee Garris '01, Maiga Miranda '01 and Stefanie De Santis '00, danced to Melissa Etheridge's "Occasionally," a poignant, minimalist guitar-and-vocalist piece that Garris captured cloquently with personally expressive choreography. Jenny Weiss '99 (a co-director of Mainly Jazz) turned out equally excellent and thoroughly modern choreography for her piece. "Collision Course" which her group of dancers performed to the Talking Heads "Slippery People...
...Latino man dealing with the horror of two generations of police brutality. A seargent explaining the brutality as the police's reaction to government dictums; a do-gooder bent on creating communication between the communites; and a man who would enter other communities as invader. Some of the most poignant stories were the least political--the magical account of a Latino woman who survives being hit by a stray bullet, a narrative in Korean (translated by another actor) about the looting of her shop. The actors faced a tough task in making their acting as realistic as the language provided...