Word: singings
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...week in front of the Calliope children’s clothing store—well, as long as the weather’s good.The cast of the show has evolved during its existence and now consists of a life-sized human puppet, which Blue stands behind and speaks through, singing his own versions of popular songs and commenting about onlookers as they chance by. “No, I’m not your God,” Newell says to a passer-by who reacted to the sight of the speaking man-sized creation with a shocked...
...Main Dining Hall, Adams House, 2 Plympton St. $30/single, $50/double. (4) These Boots Were Made for Walking … to the Feminist Rally! Check out “Respect, A Musical Journey” for a theatrical review of the social history of American women. Expect to sing along to female power ballads like “I Will Survive” and “Piece of My Heart.” WGS anyone? Sat., October 6 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m, Stuart Street Playhouse, Radisson Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston. $45, student discounts available...
...encountered Jeffs not as the prophet but rather in his earlier days as a teacher and then principal at her private church school, the Alta Academy, in Salt Lake City. He had been a top student, something of a computer geek, who trained as an accountant and liked to sing and write songs. But he was a stern headmaster, canceling an annual snow-sculpture contest because it smacked of idolatry. Doe recalled his lessons about proper conduct. Girls and boys were to treat each other "as though they were snakes," she said. "There was nothing permitted romantically." Leaving the matchmaking...
...years just after World War II, Hollywood produced a slew of nostalgic movies using the sing-along music of 40 years before, because the songs summoned a more placid and innocent age. If contemporary filmmakers are digging up the songs of the '60s, maybe it's because they remind us of a bolder, more vibrant time than our own. Kids actually did stuff then. Those who didn't go to war protested it. (The existence of a military draft helped.) They rebelled against their parents' values, political views and choice of recreational drugs - from martinis to marijuana. They marched...
...they respond. It's one thing for a theater full of black-tied swells to applaud George Clooney or Brad Pitt. It's quite another for 1,200 Madness minions to sing Happy Birthday to Italian horror auteur Dario Argento, as they did this year. Or, in 2005, to rise and cheer for Hong Kong martial-arts star Sammo Hung. When he strode onstage the people at the Ryerson practically levitated. Ambitiously titled, Midnight Madness is now an annual ritual that always lives up to its name...