Word: porter
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...park, had a house remodeled by Stanford White to serve as the Players, a club for actors. When I was ten, I once waved to Charles Coburn as he emerged from the Players, and he waved back. The park's most mentioned artist-in-residence was William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry, who lived on Irving Place and used to drink at Healy's Cafe, now Pete's Tavern, and still on 18th Street. One of the rare continuing neighborhood disputes concerns O. Henry. The people at Pete's claim that he wrote The Gift...
...other words, you probably won't hear any of the lyrics from Anything Goes on this week's top 40. A less charitable viewer might crassly term the 1940s Cole Porter opus dated, but in truth the musical is only as old as the cast feels. In fact, the musical's title might well be taken as a caveat to any troupe staging Anything Goes; an earnest cast would be the show's undoing. If the title were not warning enough, Porter offers other none-to-subtle clues. Why else sprinkle the lyrics of the infamous. "It's Delovely" with...
...Cole Porter dropped in on the Currier House production, he'd probably want to see the second act. When the production's collective blood seems to quicken, the orchestra, led by Leon Gruenbaum's lively piano, is in top form post-intermission, particularly during "Blow, Gabriel Blow" and "Be Like the Bluebird...
...numbers too absurd to play with a straight face, the cast eventually loosens up--only to find that the way to succeed in musicals is not really trying. Once unbraided, the cast's plentiful talent (not to mention Porter's) comes over loud and clear. With this week's rehearsals and three performances under their belt, the cast may hit its stride earlier on in this weekend's performances...
...back at the top, Staley found the early going tough. She dropped her first two big matches, to Sophie Porter of Dartmouth and then to Porter's sister Nina on Saturday at Trinity...