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...muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga, a giant Rastafarian woman with a face "beautifully scarred" by razor markings and dyed in a vivid multicolored swirl, who is passing out ganja cigarettes from a Sucrets tin...
...visitor to Coleman's office on Manhattan's West 54th Street may feel as if he's stumbled upon the remains of Tin Pan Alley: over there is the old upright piano on which Cy has scored most of his songs, and next to it the thousand- year-old desk, and everywhere theater posters and photographs ("He just keeps putting them up till the wall is full," says his secretary). And through the window pipe the New York City street noises that have inspired the American song ever since Irving Berlin first picked them up in the 1900s...
...some exceptional, swinging sides, but after Mack, consistent success was as elusive as a single, solid performing style. He died, far from a superstar, in 1973. The new CDs prove that his pop singing, had it not been eclipsed by the advent of the Beatles and the passing of Tin Pan Alley, could have become world-class. Tunes like Clementine and Skylark, even a chestnut like Bill Bailey, can still make your speakers jump. Darin was born a little out of time, but time has been good to his music...
...Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams's work about a marriage riddled by alcoholism, unfounded allegations of homosexuality and failure to meet high expectations, is a modern American classic. Ted Caplow's production does not disappoint--indeed, this is an admittedly traditional production marked by solid acting and fine direction. Caplow stays true to the script and opts for the alternate ending which Williams wrote for the original Broadway production...
...been said that a production can be only as good as its script. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof boasts a terrific script, and both cast and director, with few exceptions, rise to the task of putting on an enjoyable show...