Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opened his comeback tour in a steady drizzle at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. The first number, appropriately Let It Rain, revealed a richer, stronger voice. From watching Stevie Wonder sing, Clapton says, he learned to breathe in great drafts from his diaphragm. "It sends the blood rushing to my head and gives me an incredible high," he laughs. "I sometimes get dizzy onstage...
...Threepenny Opera has only two more nights of performances before it leaves the Loeb to make way for the Summer School Repertory Theater's next production, Odets's Awake and Sing! One of those faceless people in the Harvard bureaucracy sent The Crimson an anonymous note pointing out that it was "bullshit", to say that the local production of the Brecht-Weill play drew unanimous praise. That's probably true, but it is also probably true that our correspondents' mother wears army boots. In any case, the show at the Loeb is undeniably excellent and it would be a shame...
...contract and had to turn out this ecology musical. Anyway, we had this character called Mother Earth. She was very dirty." Laughing, Rubins gestures with his hands to describe the character. "People would come to dump garbage on her. At the end, they decide to do something: they all sing a song, 'Gotta Clean Her Up.' I didn't even stay in Maine to direct...
...Professionalism is something George and I always worked for. I try not to be a snob about it, but I am," Rubins says as he turns to sing some summer school papers and tell his assistants that he'll be glad to help type student telephone numbers. He continues, "Once I had a woman section leader who said about my show, 'Lots of fun, lots of fun.'" He mocks her, sounding like Truman Capote. "That infuriates me. It's like saying, 'Oh, look at those kids having a good time.' I'm not satisfied with that...
...Stake's investor list. Singer Andy Williams' stake ($538,000*) was among the largest, but he had plenty of celebrity company: Alan Alda ($145,000), Mia Farrow (amount unknown), Barbra Streisand ($28,500), Barbara Walters ($28,500), Bob Dylan (who now has $78,000 more reason to sing of capitalist exploitation). New York Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson put up an unknown amount; Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, $28,500; Federal Judge Murray Gurfein, who wrote the decision in the Pentagon-papers case, $70,000. Most astonishing is the list of astute businessmen like Wriston who invested...