Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, on the eve of his 30th anniversary with New York's Metropolitan Opera, Tucker at 60 collapsed and died of a heart attack in Kalamazoo, Mich., where that night he had been scheduled to sing a joint recital with his friend, Baritone Robert Merrill. Among Met tenors only Giovanni Martinelli outlasted Tucker, with 32 seasons...
...about Joan of Arc. It only took the Church 500 years to canonize her. Better late than never, is one tempted to explain? It won't do. Reports have it that this charcoal-broiled musical may be the worst even Boston has seen in recent years. What can you sing about a 21 year-old peasant girl who died? Joel Grey, fresh from a White House appearance doing the "Money, money, money" number from Cabaret for Sec'y of the Treasury William Simon (who remarked, as Grey tossed dollar bills in his direction, "We need more of these) stars, though...
About 4:45 a.m. we touched Cuban soil. As the plane's wheels scraped the dark empty runway, someone began to sing, "Cuba, Que Linda Es Cuba...
...that the U.S. government was constantly broadcasting in Cuba, urging the people to resist "the evils of Communism" and to "come over to Miami." He then asked if we liked these musicians: The Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Santana and War. When he named War, he began to sing "Cisco Kid, si?" and we all laughed and replied...
Although the reader is left wondering what Prince really does believe, it's easy to sympathize with his ambivalence. There's something seductive about big, flashy star-studded musicals with lots of dancing and songs that you sing to yourself on the way out of the theater--Damn Yankees, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum, Fiddler on the Roof, the shows that made Prince famous in the fifties and sixties. But at the same time, there's a nagging feeling that all this display is not really "art," that it's all contrived...