Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Serenaded with the song "Black Butterfly" by the Brothers of Kuumba, Higginbotham received flowers and a standing ovation acknowledging her new post in the History Department...
...plump face inching toward jowly, the pop troubadour, 56, has reached unmistakable middle age. But the mellow, yearning voice coming through the sound system has changed little: "I was born in Puerto Rico/ Came here when I was a child..." Simon was preparing the mix for a song from The Capeman, his new musical that recounts a bloody tabloid crime from the 1950s, explores questions of guilt and redemption and introduces a rich dose of Latin rhythms and doo-wop music to Broadway. One riff from the electric keyboard caused him to make a face. "It's too synthy...
...most of Broadway's top names, rejecting some and being turned down by others, Simon settled on Susana Tubert, an Argentine-born director who had apprenticed with Harold Prince. She was ousted after three months. Then Simon brought in Eric Simonson, a young Chicago director who had staged The Song of Jacob Zulu on Broadway. Where Tubert had favored a magic-realist approach, Simonson pushed for a more documentary style, which Simon hated. Simonson was out after two months. Simon then prevailed on Morris, whom he got along with well, to take over the job of director as well...
Boston's first-annual Black Arts Festival--an amalgamation of song, drama and guest speakers--kicks off tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall with a special performance of "Songs We Can't Sing," the original musical written and directed by Derrick N. Ashong...
BAGHDAD: Seasoned thespians they aren't. But when it comes to putting on an international song-and-dance in the midst of crisis, no one has better timing than Saddam Hussein and Madeleine Albright...