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DIED. BRUCE HART, 68, original lyricist for PBS's Sesame Street who co-wrote the sweetly optimistic theme song to the Emmy Award--winning children's show ("Can you tell me how to get/ How to get to Sesame Street?"); of lung cancer; in New York City...
...life, of course. But a musical? A rehearsal in Seoul earlier this month confirmed suspicions that Jung, who defected to South Korea from the North in 1994, is not looking to delight audiences with the kind of toe-tapping jollity dished up on Broadway: while a patriotic North Korean song blared in the background, a dozen actors playing prison guards marched menacingly in goosestep around three Yodok inmates caught trying to escape. Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight. The story, which Jung himself wrote, is nothing...
After the dance, Kaszynski is given a monologue and delivers his lines clearly and forcefully, Polish accent and all. Then comes the singing. Kaszynski does not have a song prepared, so is given the notes and lyrics to "Maybe This Time" from "Cabaret...
...doesn’t get much better than the explosive leadoff track, “The View From The Afternoon.” Crammed with myriad ideas that each would have made for a perfectly decent Blur song, the track barrels along, picking up so much momentum that it eventually crashes to a halt, only to lurch back up to speed again. Despite its four-minute runtime, it feels epic...
...walked in. Now this is a very important live sports lesson: only visit the restrooms between innings, halves, periods, or sets. You might miss something. Such was my fate as I found bladder relief before my seat; from the sound of the band striking up the fight song as I stood stationed at the urinal I knew the Crimson had potted a go-ahead goal. Something told me, though, that that wouldn’t be the end of it. My karma couldn’t be that bad, spectator sports satisfaction couldn’t be that fleeting...