Word: romping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Birdcage has made Lane a movie star, but Forum shows his true home is the stage. On his shoulders--so eloquent in a shrug or a shudder--he carries this burly romp, and a good share of Broadway's hopes for a year worth singing about...
...result was no filler, but a romp. Doherty and her producer-husband, John McColgan, knew they had a hit and quickly turned it into a full-length show called Riverdance. Composer Bill Whelan wrote the score, which uses traditional forms like the jig and the reel. And Michael Flatley, the volcanic star of the short segment, devised the choreography. All four had a background in television or the theater, which paid off in the show's drive and shrewd pacing. Americans are about to get their first look at this phenomenon...
Produced by Noah Helman '98 and directed by Scott Brown, "Godspell" is a rockin' 1970s romp through the Gospel of St. Matthew. Part Brady Bunch, part Jim and Tammy Faye, the musical is a colorful, energetic, secularized depiction of Biblical parables strung together with lively song-and-dance numbers...
Gingrich called the moment "mystical, magical." More than any of his early wins, the romp through the first 100 days, the votes on tax cuts and regulatory reform, this one was hard, a truer measure of whether the new ecosystem he had created in the House would actually work the way he planned. "You can't, in a free society, postpone permanently major arguments," he says, " and the job of leadership is to manage it." That night he erased decades of habit in the House: the habits that members are more loyal to their supporters than to their Speaker, that...
Despite a week of little ECAC ice time in women's hockey, the only other game that counted in the league standings was enough to change them. After a 6-1 romp of Colby, the University of New Hampshire secured a first place tie in the league with Northeastern. UNH freshman Melisa Heitzman tallied her first career hat trick and an assist in the game, helping the Wildcats to a league-leading 35 goals on the season...