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...never mired in the wink-wink-nudge- nudge of condescension to either Shakespeare or the audience. As Donnellan and Ormerod proved in their version of Angels in America at the National Theatre, no play is so weighted down by metaphor or message that it cannot be made to sing and soar...
...minutes before my economics section was scheduled to end, a boy in the back row raised a white-gloved hand and asked to be excused early. He had to go stand in front of the Science Center and sing "Billie Jean," dressed in tuxedo pants, a mauve vest, a long blonde wing, and, of course, the glove...
Even before the play begins, and as people are taking their seats, catchy tunes by female singers are piped in. This leads audience members to become so comfortable that they sing along, especially for a tune like Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made for Walkin." Similarly, at the end of the performance, when the actors have disrobed and are standing in their bras and underwear dancing and bobbing around to Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," the theater is transformed into a party...
...artist. When he nearly upsets Laura's menagerie, the look that flashes across his face is a tiny cornucopia of rue, love, self-disgust, fear and resignation. Calista Flockhart's Laura is near perfect, her pathological shyness so organic that it is painful to watch. Only a tendency to sing her words mars her performance. As the Gentleman Caller upon whom Amanda pins her great hopes for Laura, Kevin Kilner is properly hearty, even if his self-assurance seems a bit put on rather than intrinsic...
...black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after debating Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, about the virtues of the Confederate flag, he said, "I'm going to sing Dixie to her until she cries." When Clinton nominated Roberta Achtenberg, a gay-rights activist, to a post at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Helms said, "She's not your garden-variety lesbian. She's a militant-activist-mean lesbian...