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...couple months’ time, any brainy Harvard student will ask himself the following question: “Why see another lame Harry Potter movie when I can go see a fantastic live version of Cabaret?” Our own Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club would agree wholeheartedly, as it unleashes a mind-bending onslaught of fantastic theater this semester. With Fiddler on the Roof, The Balcony and everything in between, it’s guaranteed to be a funny, diverse and tear-jerking season with your favorite Harvard stars. Aspiring actors across campus have already begun physically and mentally...
...season, Cabaret, on the Loeb Mainstage from Nov. 15-23, directed by Joy Fairfield ’03 and Sabrina Blum ’03. Even for those who saw the Broadway revival 14 times, it will still be worth skipping the Nov. 15 opening of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to make a trip to period Berlin and party with the debaucherous denizens of everyone’s favorite nightclub. Expect a re-imagined production and an immensely talented, gorgeous cast...
Given that Summerland's publisher, Miramax Books, is an affiliate of Miramax studios, guess who will produce the inevitable Summerland film? Miramax Books had already embarked on its blatant Harry Potter knock-off, the Artemis Fowl series, when Chabon came by with his idea for something subtler, a story about a struggle to fend off the end of everything, hinging upon baseball games played in a magical parallel world. The hero is that classic figure of children's literature, the semiabandoned child. Ethan Feld is 11. His mother has died of cancer. His loving but grieving father is absorbed...
...child and plays paintball tag with him all the time. But lately there's a big new reason for writing stories aimed at "young readers," the publishing-industry term for kids who are done with picture books but not quite ready for Tolstoy and Candace Bushnell. It's Harry Potter. Harry's success with the reading world--more than 100 million copies sold around the globe--is something that the writing world could not ignore...
...wasn't thinking about Harry Potter for a second when I wrote Summerland," Chabon insists. But he admits that "it helped pave the way. It made the idea of a children's book so much more thinkable for writers." Even when you put aside the money, what writer would not want to have J.K. Rowling's impact on the world? Because of Rowling's Harry Potter series, millions of children have decided, at least for a while, that the most important thing in their lives is not a Powerpuff Girls movie, a pro-wrestling action figure or Britney...