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...rock ("Hair"). I applaud the whirlwind schedule of each production (first rehearsal to closing night in two weeks flat). I'm won over by the subtle elegance of its productions, with scenic consultant John Lee Beatty merely suggesting the settings in front of the stage-wide bandstand that holds Rob Fisher's Coffee Club Orchestra. I'm awed by the scholarly passion for detail Fisher, Encores!' musical director, brings to the restoring of each score...
...Reassembling an old musical requires a mix of showmanship and scholarship - a paleontologist's digging and Poirot's powers of inference. "Did they use this harmony, or did they mean it to be that harmony?" said Rob Fisher. "I agonize over this, because I want the score to sound exactly as it did originally." No reclamation project was as daunting as that of "St. Louis Woman," the 1946 Arlen-Johnny Mercer musical revived in 1998. "There was no score," Fisher said, "just scraps of material." Ace orchestrators Ralph Burns and Luther Henderson re-created - and, for the overture and dance...
...University of Wisconsin brought former Green Bay head coach Mark Osiecki on board to fill a recently vacated assistant’s position, Mazzoleni’s name quickly surfaced among the frontrunners to replace him, thanks in large part to his longstanding friendship with the Gamblers' president, Rob Nicholson...
...team effort. When we play as a team, we win. When we play as individuals our playing is fragmented, and we don’t play well,” Harvard coach Rob Keller said...
...dramas are "Clubhouse," a sentimental-looking coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old boy who lands a job as batboy for the pinstripe-wearing "New York Empires" (the Yankees, for some reason, didn't want the weekly plug); and "dr. vegas" - e.e. cummings-esque capitalization intended - starring Rob Lowe as a casino doctor who handles a bizarre stream of cases. The Las Vegas tourist board must love the premise ("Come to Vegas and get a colorful injury!"), though, then again, "CSI" didn't hurt them ("Come to Vegas and we'll catch the guy who murders...