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...have," says Christine Travalino, theater director at Pittsburgh Perry High School, which put on Urinetown this year. "A lot of the older shows just don't have enough parts in them." Letzter of West Aurora High says she's long wanted to do Into the Woods - Sondheim's dark twist on old fairy tales - but doesn't feel the cast is big enough. "No matter how you cut it you're only going to get 18 kids in there unless you have a chorus of wolves and pigs," she says. "And then it becomes ridiculous...
...school production of Ragtime had to battle with local clergy, black leaders and school officials over the musical's use of racial epithets, sexual and religious references. Jesus Christ Superstar has drawn criticism from some religious groups. And when a private school in suburban Baltimore offered a unique racial twist on the casting of Big River - Huck Finn was played by a black student and the slave Jim by a white one - the licensing agency for the show balked at allowing a scene from the show to be performed at the Cappies Awards. (It eventually relented...
...turn out to be fun, though. My favorite game by far was the Snowboard Slalom, in which you crouch down into a squat then twist your torso back and forth - ever so gently - as you slalom down the hill. Not only did this make my thighs burn, but it took 51 tries before I reached the top level: Champion! Although I've never snowboarded in my life, and am a klutz on skis, for a few minutes, I actually felt like a sports star...
...battle in which a British warship fired upon the Mercedes and blew it up. "The artifacts that remain are spilled in a way consistent with an explosion. There's only one ship that fits that description." Stemm contests Goold's conclusion. "He is either trying to twist the historical records," the Odyssey CEO says, "or he has not reviewed them...
...victim, now 23 years old, has denied she is in the video. However, prosecutors are expected to call to the witness stand several people, including the alleged victim's relatives, to identify her as the person in the video and establish that she was a minor. In another strange twist, the Chicago Sun-Times reported last weekend that prosecutors will also call to the witness stand a woman who claims to have engaged in ménages a trois with Kelly and the alleged victim. Further complicating matters is Gaughan's gag order, which has terrified court clerks from releasing...