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...which can be best described as “Cabaret” for more sophisticated listeners. The two classic songs from the opera, “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” and “Pirate Jenny,” are so well-performed and well-sung that I doubt I’ll ever be able to separate the memory of the former from the wide-eyed stare and thrilling voice of John D. Kapusta ’09 as the Street Singer, nor the latter from the desperation of Demirjian’s Jenny...
...long history of successful productions that at first glance don't seem particularly fun or uplifting?consider Oliver!'s homeless orphans in Dickensian London, or The Sound of Music's Von Trapp family harmonizing its way out of Nazi-occupied Austria. But in Seoul, novice theater director Jung Sung San is pushing the concept of the unlikely musical to a new extreme. Jung, 36, currently has a cast in rehearsal for a musical about the prison camps of North Korea...
...government's efforts to improve relations with North Korea. He claims the officials advised him to characterize life in the camp as less brutal and asked him to remove a number of key props, including the North's flags and images of Kim and his late father Kim Il Sung. Jung declines to say who the officials were or which ministry they came from...
...emphasizes that an open mind is all that is needed to appreciate opera, and views musical theater as the further development of operatic technique. According to Green, “A lot of modern musical theatre...[draws] on elements from the operatic tradition... some to the point of being sung through with what might be thought of as recitative and arias.” In keeping with his tradition of unconventional approaches, Green plans to eschew the typical Harvard path of law school or finance to continue working in the area about which he is most passionate: music. And even...
...Time with eight guitars in a line pumping like a row of pistons, Young fanatics and other assorted baby boomers might well descend into tearful raptures. Every viewer, though, will be impressed by the mysterious way the new songs written by an old man take on fresh meaning when sung alongside old songs penned when he was younger. "There's something going on in there that I can't really explain," Young told the Washington Post after the film's debut at the Sundance Film Festival last month...