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...partnership of long standing and great mutual success. Champion, born in Geneva, Ill., had played supper clubs when he was just out of high school, danced with his first wife Marge through a succession of movie musicals (Show Boat, Jupiter's Darling). Although he won his first Tony Award in 1949, Champion made his big smash as a director with Bye Bye Birdie (1960). Subsequently he did much of his most successful work on Merrick productions (Carnival!, I Do, I Do) and in 1964 gave the producer his biggest hit, Hello, Dolly!, one of the most spectacular theatrical bonanzas...
...Sooner or later, he will succeed-to the great delight of the audience. The Resurrection of Jesus is the supreme example of God's refusal to accept the limits of the possible." Through love, the clown, like Jesus, can transform the ordinary into the sacred. At the Last Supper, ordinary bread and cheap table wine became eternal symbols of Jesus' love and sacrifice. At Pentecost, a group of illiterate fishermen were turned into inspired preachers who could speak to every man present in his own language. "Isn't that Christ's message," asks Shaffer, "that even...
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...served in Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night cafés and clubs, where he sang for his supper the bossa nova and samba tunes he helped to make world-famous...
...idea originated as a reinterpretation of the Last Supper from a feminine perspective, with women as guests, not cooks, participants, not waiters. Where 13 men sat down for the Last Supper, 13 women formed, in legend, a witches coven--a symbol of female power, albeit evil power. But as Chicago's vision expanded, so did the size of her party. Before she was done inviting women from all of history, it had grown to a three-sided affair with 39 guests...