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...Presidents aren't afraid to speak boldly in groups; many are showmen. You belong on stage with Reagan...
...only are the program's wrangles topical, but they also hew closely to the actual debates in Washington instead of giving us Hollywood's usual cartoon version. That's not out of civic obligation, the showmen insist, it's just that reality is entertaining. "The farther you get away from the truth of those debates, the softer the drama is going to be," says Sorkin, who also created and writes the ABC series Sports Night. For a political edge, he relies on consultants like Caddell and former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, who describes Sorkin's approach as "Give...
...seems, it's the book that has made a lot of people want to be Broadway showmen. In an odd coincidence, The Wild Party is the source and identical title for two musicals opening on the New York City stage only weeks apart. Both follow March's story of Queenie and her abusive boyfriend Burrs, who throw a party that attracts an array of Roaring Twenties types and ends in violence. In the depleted world of Broadway musicals--where only three new shows with an original book and score opened last season--the idea of two based on the very...
...voice in the truest sense, of demanding applause and cheers from the rest of the human race, it's definitely annoying to the point of destructive. The Kroks are a little bit of both. Those who are not real musical buffs or expert managers in the group are showmen: McNeely wants to be "a pop star" while Perry Wilson, star of his freshman musical, loves to ham it up on his air guitar solo during the group's 1950s medley. Both the audience and the performers get their kicks at a Kroks show. "Sometimes you feel like a celebrity...
...rock musicians --Marlon Brando, actor --Coco Chanel, designer --Charlie Chaplin, comic genius --Le Corbusier, architect --Bob Dylan, folk musician --T.S. Eliot, poet --Aretha Franklin, soul musician --Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer --Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of TV's Muppets --James Joyce, novelist --Pablo Picasso, artist --Rodgers & Hammerstein, Broadway showmen --Bart Simpson, cartoon character --Frank Sinatra, singer --Steven Spielberg, moviemaker --Igor Stravinsky, classical musician --Oprah Winfrey, TV talk-show host...