Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Uptown Racquet Club is looking for a receptionist to greet customers and sit at the front desk at this squash and fitness club...
Contact: Uptown Racquet Club...
...been growing interest in an authentic Porgy, beginning with the Houston Grand Opera's 1976 production and followed by an even more opulent version seen at New York's Radio City Music Hall two years ago. Last week, 50 years after its premiere, Porgy came all the way uptown to the Metropolitan Opera. At last, the work's operatic pretensions have been fairly and thoroughly tested. And you know what? Gershwin was almost right...
Before or after seeing Whoopi, the cobra is advised to trek uptown to 104th Street for the season's joyfullest noise. Mama I Want to Sing is a "story in concert," in which a disc jockey narrator spins out the tale of a young girl who dreams of becoming a pop singer. Her father is a Harlem minister, her mother a traditionalist who believes the only good music is God's music. This becomingly naive plot--a black Jazz Singer or a prequel to Dreamgirls--is sturdy enough to support a dozen or so knockout gospel singers, with a spirit...
...Brother is how gracefully Sayles earns smiles and sympathy for his hero (Joe Morton) and his lank, loping comedy. In a rattling subway car, a cardsharp announces his next trick-"Wanna see me make all the white people disappear?"-as the subway doors open at the last uptown express stop before Harlem...