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...surprising as it may seem. Riverdance depends on far-flung Irish communities for both its personnel (only 30 of the troupe are native-born Irish) and its core audience. The traditional art that Riverdance draws on still flourishes around the world, mostly through contests--not unlike Welsh singing competitions...
According to the event program, a Memorial Hall dinner in the early 1900s included mock turtle soup, fried codfish and pork scraps, Welsh rarebit, stewed kidneys in wine sauce, canvas back ducks, lamb tongues and canned corn, with mince pie for dessert...
...have started this week but were postponed until Oct. 30 after Simpson hired a new attorney, civil litigator Robert Baker. It's rare for acquitted criminal defendants to be hit with such suits, which carry no jail time but could result in multimillion-dollar damage judgments. Explains Professor Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: "Most criminal defendants, unlike O.J. Simpson, do not have the kind of assets that would be worth pursuing...
...same can be said of the summer's other productions. From Britain, Glimmerglass has imported a splendidly colorful mounting by the Welsh National Opera of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard. And Swedish director Peter Stormare, a protege of Ingmar Bergman's, has put Mozart's Don Giovanni in a surprising, provocative new light. This Don is an aging lech so enervated by his exploits that he spends most of the opera being pushed around like a paraplegic. The approach may not be quite what Mozart had in mind, but the gutsy cast of young American singers...
...filmmakers are ever mindful of the glory days, nearly a half-century ago, when the Ealing Studios produced a smart series of social comedies. Two of Grant's new films aim for that mixture of nostalgia and satire. The Englishman ... is writer-director Christopher Monger's fable about a Welsh village whose denizens are determined that their local hill (elevation 300 m) be declared a mountain (elevation at least 305 m). Grant, as the English surveyor who is finally seduced by their cause, struts and tut-tuts through his part with authority, but all his patented exertions can't keep...