Word: wittiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little Night Music. Spend a weekend in the country with a band of delightfully mismatched lovers in turn-of-the-century Sweden as they cavort to Sondheim's wittiest lyrics and most beatutiful music. A bittersweet comedy filled with passion, romance and foolish shenanigans. LoebMainstage, 8 p.m. $5 for students...
...down by the simple fact that what the butler saw in 1967 seems rather banal compared to what the butler now sees. More politically inclined people should not expect much ammunition from this production. However, for those looking for a lighthearted farce (albeit unfamiliar) written by one of the wittiest British humourists, What the Butler Saw at the A.R.T. is a good...
Dream of a garden painted by Rousseau, under the canopy of a huge Tiffany lampshade and inhabited by creatures from Fellini's or Tim Burton's wittiest musings. In this Day-Glo, candy-cane fantasia, the whole food chain is on display. The roustabouts wriggle like worms; some of the featured artistes are dressed as tigers or lizards. The clowns could be from a Greenwich Village Halloween parade: Munchkins and bathing beauties, Road Warriors and samurai. This is a circus even Madonna could love -- commedia dell'arte as restaged by surrealists in a birthday-party mood...
...single mother and a quirky actor forced to share an apartment and a succession of setbacks. Adding to the buzz were Simon's collaborators: Marvin Hamlisch, composer of Broadway's longest-running show ever, A Chorus Line, and David Zippel, whose lyrics for City of Angels were the wittiest in years. Graciela Daniele, a six-time Tony nominee, was recruited to mount musical numbers. The leads were cast with Bernadette Peters, the reigning diva of musicals, and Martin Short, an effervescent TV and film comic making his Broadway debut. So potent was the combination that a year in advance, industry...
...play the bass as a lead instrument. The tenth and eleventh songs are "Under the Bridge" and "Show Me Your Soul," a cut from the "Pretty Woman" soundtrack, which in addition to funky guitar and an incredible bass line has some of the Chili's wittiest lyrics: "I want to know more than your brain/ Yes I find you so appealing/ When you show me how you're feeling/ You, my friend, need not be kneeling/ Open up and start revealing...Show me your soul...