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...Band Wagon. At Mather House Dining Hall, Friday...
...Band Wagon. These are the best musicals: the ones about the addictive greasepaint itself. And this Vincente Minelli masterpiece comes delightfully close to topping them all. It swirls and taps about a musical within a musical, featuring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse as two cool professionals who warm up like toaster coils in the course of the production. Jack Buchanan, as the director, is a portrait in Orson Welles-like pomposity and does some hoofing to match the skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle...
American high school and college soccer teams generally schedule fewer than two dozen games each season, while aspiring young stars in Europe may play 50 or more. Inexperienced coaches are also a problem. Says Cosmos Captain Werner Roth: "When I was young, a coach was someone with a station wagon and spare time, not someone with knowledge of the game." Too often, that is still true...
...action takes place during the Thirty Years' War. Mother Courage (Mary Lou Rosato) is an intrepid trader with a sassy tongue and a saucy past. She leeches off the advancing and retreating armies with the goods in her hand-drawn wagon. But her losses bitterly outweigh her profits. While she is haggling over the sale of a belt buckle, her favorite son Eilif (Kevin Conroy) is dragooned to the wars by a sly recruiting officer. Eilif dies. While she tries to shave the price for the release of another son (Jeffrey Hayenga), he is executed. Finally, her mute daughter...
...unfolds as a series of losses, of partings. "Now hesitant among the mountains/we pass across the invisible boundary/that divides self from self..." The last and most painful parting for Tamsen, is her husband's death. She therefore chooses to die in the mountains, with him and their broken wagon, under 20 feet of snow, rather than join her daughters who ultimately reach California. "How can I part with my sustaining love... how can I learn sleep/without his shoulder to bed down my griefs...