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...Morris says. “The song emphasizes the more serious side and the social commentary of the show.” Morris and Miller are also hoping to bring back the classic Gilbert and Sullivan tradition of encores, or repeat performances of the most popular or exciting songs that get progressively faster and more difficult. “For a lot of reasons they’ve fallen out of favor recently, but it’s one of the areas where we’re trying something different,” Morris says.“Encores...
...course she is currently teaching—is certainly in line with the rest of her oeuvre. Garber says that her objective in focusing her attention on 10 specific plays through critical essays that expound on certain universal themes was to explore the interdependent relationship between Shakespeare and popular culture, especially by tracing the playwright’s influence on society as it develops through the ages. “[This book] covers the two eras that have been most important to my work and my thought—modernity and the English Renaissance,” Garber says...
...Star Wars,” and impeached a president. By the end of the decade, we were also home to around 15,000 discothèques. Disco was a four billion dollar industry, yet my mother still has an avowed hatred the most popular musical genre of her early youth. “I was really more of a funk girl,” she would claim, turning the dial as a Gloria Gaynor tune came across the radio. But dropping me off for my first year of college, she confessed, “I went to Studio 54 once...
...rousing, repetitive chorus of “Fuck you, Luda,” which is more than enough to demonstrate Ludacris can still poke fun at himself. Luda’s most brilliant moments are those metaphors that make you laugh out loud with their bizarre lewdness or popular culture references, such as when he promises to make you “wetter than Michael Phelps.” Ludacris has always been one of the downright funniest hip-hop lyricists, and “One More Drink,” with an appearance from T-Pain, keeps the punchlines...
...Wagers, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who described Melton as a mentor, said she was impressed that Melton had done so well in a popular survey...