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...great a pain to the cops as to the crooks he nabbed. The cases and car chases were not anything special; Rockford's raffish sense of humor and ability to fast-talk his way out of any jam were. Garner's insouciance bursts off the screen like a Pontiac Firebird flying off a ramp...
...with Longwave, Giant Drag, Emergency Music, and The Auto Interiors. The Middle East Downstairs. 7:30 p.m. 18+. Tickets available at The Middle East box office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000, $12 general admission. (ABW)Hail Social. Hail Social appears at T.T.’s with openers Firebird Band (10:40 p.m.), Jet By Day (9:50 p.m.), and Bad Jamie (9 p.m). T.T. The Bear’s Place. 11:30 p.m. Tickets available cash-only at the door, through Ticketmaster, or by phone, (617) 492-BEAR, $8. (DFH)Thursday, Nov. 10Midday Organ Recital. The Harvard Organ...
Husband and wife duo Mates of State perform their lovers’ rock with synthesizers and drums at the Middle East. Boston bands Victory at Sea—celebrating the release of their new album—and Helms open. Shenzou 5 and the Firebird Band provide further support. 18+. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Downstairs at the Middle East...
...jagged piano music of contemporary Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. Other companies and other styles soon beckoned. There was a richly rendered A Midsummer Night's Dream for Denver's Colorado Ballet; another spiky, witty Ligeti work, Continuum, for the San Francisco Ballet; a fairy-tale treatment of Stravinsky's Firebird for the Boston Ballet. Like Balanchine before him, Wheeldon ventured onto Broadway, creating dances for the 2002 musical Sweet Smell of Success. It was a dud, but it led to a collaboration with Success's star, John Lithgow, who wrote and narrated Wheeldon's nimble, charming setting of Carnival...
Well, maybe next time. After all, there were plans for animating Firebird soon after the original film was released; Stravinsky saw Disney's take on The Rite of Spring, liked it and gave Disney the rights to other pieces. "Good ideas will always find their way to the screen," says Peter Schneider, Disney Studios boss. Or to some other part of the Magic Kingdom. Roy talks of putting the Rachmaninoff piece, which was fully storyboarded before it was scratched, in Disneyland's CircleVision pavilion. With a budget estimated at $85 million (some skeptics say it's nearly twice that amount...