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Orenstein locates the fairy tale??s earliest ancestor in a 17th-century oral folktale, “The Grandmother’s Tale,” and reproduces a version from the French countryside. Creepy and grotesque, the story is anything but a nursery rhyme. The wolf, waiting eagerly in bed, feeds the little girl (here, sans red riding hood) a jar of her grandmother’s blood and then coaxes her to perform a slow striptease. With each garment removed, he urges her, “Throw it on the fire, my child. You won?...
...nothing next to Janie’s travels in the Czech Republic. It was even near nothing when matched to my friends’ experiences here in the States. With New York, D.C. and even the western United States as playgrounds, most people I knew had their own exciting tale??intriguing lab experiments, work with some prestigious community service institute or adventurous trekking outdoors. And it didn’t help that many of friends here at home in southern California also had quite entertaining experiences, like those working for Fox studios or performing with their band...
...fated Mamillius, played by Eva Furrow ’03, explains in Act II, Scene i, “A sad tale??s best for winter.” This production, though, is anything but a sad tale??it is a tale of growth and rebirth, perfect for the season...
...overall effect was something like watching a three-hour cartoon, which only made the impact of Die Zauberflöte’s idealistic vision more powerful. This opera is, after all, a fairy tale??albeit a bizarre one full of Masonic rituals and Egyptian gods. And like all fairy tales, Die Zauberflöte seeks to teach us a moral. Its particular lesson—the transformative power of brotherhood and love—would lose much of its force if we forgot, even for a minute, that what we are watching is markedly not the world...