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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Hard Knock Life
In yesterday’s post for Salon, journalist Scott Timberg explores why there is “No Sympathy for the Creative Class.” He writes, “There’s a sense that manufacturing, or the agrarian economy, is what this country is really about. But culture was, for … Continue reading
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All Good Gifts
In Broadway’s Golden Age, producers would hold backers’ auditions to raise funds. For example, librettist Arthur Laurents remembered how Cheryl Crawford organized an event for West Side Story investors at “an apartment on the East Side [where] there was no … Continue reading
Oh, What a Circus
On April 5, the first Broadway revival of Evita opened at the Marquis Theater, and the majority of ink and bits devoted to the show since then have not been on the overall production but on the specifics of its … Continue reading
Glee Recap: Saturday Night Glee-ver
In the recent New Yorker, Adam Gopnick comments on “The Forty-Year Itch,” that “prime site of nostalgia” invoked by 40-something Hollywood suits fascinated by “the Edenic period preceding the fallen state” of their lives. Last night’s episode of Glee is … Continue reading
Smash Recap: The Movie Star
Finally, in Episode 11, we meet Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman) – the cameo last week being little more than a publicity teaser – and as too often happens with marquee names, the star of Bombshell has the wattage but not … Continue reading