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While jazz emanates from every corner of the city, the two protagonists of the story??Jonah Dove, resident of Striver’s Row and minister of the Church of New Jerusalem, and the young Malcolm X (then Malcolm Little)—are engaged in a fateful dance of despair and isolation that is resolved climactically amidst a chaotic race riot...
...told, this is a children’s story??a fairy tale, more or less, built on archetypal stock characters and a simplistic, familiar plot. And if readers—particularly readers who go to school with her—associate the real Kaavya Viswanathan with the caricature she has created in Opal Mehta, the shadow of her novel may prove to be a hard one to overcome...
...that, like a puzzle, simultaneously attract and deflect the audience. Unsurprisingly, the plays are all built on somewhat macabre premises: “The Orphan of Zhao” dramatizes the historic massacre of the Zhao family; “Peach Blossom Fan” is titled after the story??s central, blood-stained symbol; “My Life as a Fairy Tale” explores the “darker side” of Hans Christian Andersen’s celebrated children’s stories (which, admittedly, never lurked too far beneath the surface anyway...
...possible way—was the show’s final scene, “Thinking Up a New Name for the Act (Meat and Potatoes).” It encompassed a lengthy and impassioned argument, several sexual puns, and three musical numbers (one “West Side Story?? medley, one takeoff on “All That Jazz” from “Chicago,” and one on “Chicago’s” “Cell Block Tango”)—yet the only words spoken...
...family comedies can be all-around great fun. “Toy Story?? (featuring Allen in a decently compelling performance) is in my top-ten list, and “Finding Nemo” never disappoints. Both of those movies succeed based on their ability to bring out the gleeful child within the bitterest cynic. “The Shaggy Dog” doesn’t come remotely close to replicating the same coup de cinema...