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...Opera House, you could see the stars of "Will and Grace" trotted onstage like so many singing bar-mitzvah dancers, performing a "rock opera" that twitted executives and sang the network's praises. At one point, the prerecorded music crapped out, leaving the four singing a parody of "Dancing Queen" a cappella - and let's just say it revealed that Debra Messing is, um, not a professional singer, a fact underscored when she sang a duet with costar Harry Connick Jr., who is. If Fox is smart, they'll score a tape of the performance and have Randy, Paula...
Taking place in Rabagliati's native Quebec during the heyday of Queen and Supertramp, "Summer Job" begins with Paul, the author's alter-ego, having just quit school and suffering the tedium of working at a printing press. Artistically inclined, he had acquired a government grant to paint murals on the school walls, but a ruthless principal pulled him off the job due to low marks. Bored, directionless and angry, the last stroke comes when Paul's pet bird dies. Luckily an acquaintance calls to offer Paul a job as a counselor at a woodsy camp for underprivileged children...
...plot goes like this: the queen won’t let the prince get married because she is overprotective, so she sends all suitors away by telling them that their behavior contradicts the “true Princess manual.” But the prince loves Lilybell, the Queen’s lady-in-waiting, so he creates a plan to have her shipped from the castle to the castle in a carton so she can take the princess test...
...Queen tries to test Lilybell by placing a pea under her mattress, but the prince’s servant and rapper, Pea-Ditty, manages to confuse the Queen’s henchmen into putting him under the mattress instead. He wakes the potential princess so she can pass the test, and they all live happily ever after—except for the henchmen, who get fired, and the Queen, who must sleep on the royal couch for some weeks to come...
Lewis added that he has enjoyed rubbing elbows with the celebrity hosts of the annual Cultural Rhythms show, which have included Queen Latifah, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington. Seeing the movies those actors have starred in will be “a good project for my newfound free time,” he said...