Word: zorba
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...symmetry. A toy out of place, a hair clip without a precisely secured mate on the other side of her head could send her into rages. In quiet moments she rocks herself with a natural sea-born rhythm. But when Mandy dances, it is explosive, "closer to Nijinsky or Zorba the Greek than to Fred Astaire." Her favorite toys are paper cutouts of golliwogs and Draculas and model airplanes that West assembles with her. The glue goes to their heads...
...Theodorakis, 44, one of the regime's leading political enemies, because he is suffering from tuberculosis. During 20 months of detention, Theodorakis, a Communist, wrote the score for the current award-winning movie Z* and had it smuggled out of Greece. He also wrote the musical score for Zorba the Greek. Theodorakis flew off in a jet chartered by French Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. At Paris' Le Bourget Airport, he was greeted by 100 Greek opponents of the Athens government, including Actress Melina Mercouri...
...large percentage of the musical's songs-numbers uninte grated into the action, merely commenting upon it. The device worked brilliantly and, in the process, went a long way towards undoing the modernizing Richard Rodgers and friends had done twenty-five years earlier. With 1968's Zorba, Prince continued the device-in the form of a Greek chorus-and, this time, even fewer of the musical numbers were ones growing out of the script...
...musical score was composed, appropriately enough, by Mikis Theodorakis, a great composer ( Zorba the Greek ) and left-wing youth leader. When the colonels took over in April, 1967. Theodorakis knew what was best for him and took refuge in the Bulgarian embassy in Athens. The police caught up with him and he has been in prison for more than two years. He is now sick and under police surveillance in a hospital. The score for Z is adapted from various of his work which were smuggled out of Greece, where they are banned along with the music of Tchaikovsky...
...whose West Side Story had revolutionized the Broadway musical the year before) besides Merrick done it. Take Me Along's life would surely have been much longer. (It is interesting to note that co-author Stein went on to write two great serious musicals, Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba, for Prince...