Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more of a Greatest Hits compilation of Musical Theater than an original production. A lot of the scenes are strikingly reminiscent stagings of scenes from other shows. Merlyn's solo in captivity is straight out of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. When bawdy types convene in a tavern, one expects the Master of the House from Les Miserables to drop in. And, when the ensemble gropes at and pleads suggestively for Merlyn to "Come, come," they might as well be addressing Pippin. What is true for some of the staging is true for some of the melodies as well...
...Boston's Revolutionary Tavern Sites...
...guided walking tour of tavern sites where the Revolutionary cause brewed...
...heard about the trouble at 14th and U. A glance at the street confirmed that the violence had already spread. People were breaking windows, and flames leaped from a building not far away. Shaking with fear, Katherine raced to her apartment, where she was horrified to discover that the tavern right next door had been set on fire. As sirens wailed and wisps of tear gas tainted the air, she bundled up the children and made her way through the gathering chaos to the home of relatives in a safer neighborhood...
When she returned to her apartment the next day, the tavern had been reduced to a smoldering relic. She resolved then and there to find a safer abode. She could afford little on her meager wages, but found an apartment on Euclid Street. Though it was only blocks away from the place she had fled, the quiet block, mostly occupied by working-class black families, seemed like a different world. She has been there ever since...