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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: NOT YOUR FATHER'S JIG | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Greatest Story Ever Belted Out | 3/14/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT GINGRICH; MASTER OF THE HOUSE | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Dena J. Springer, | Title: Harvard Is in Lower Tier Of ECAC | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

...pound division, Mosley continued his romp through the ranks of collegiate wrestling--battling top-seeded Evan Dolan of Rider in the semifinals and coming away with a victory...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Wrestlers Place Fifth in Tourney | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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