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...with a neatly trimmed beard. His photographs rest on the sidewalk, propped against an available building. They do their own selling; Forss merely watches while passers-by stop to look. They see remarkable things: a velvety image of a contemplative black child, a serene study of a well-fed cat and an undernourished house plant. The much photographed Verrazano Bridge can be found in Forss's display, but this time with a small starburst of sunlight piercing one of its uprights. And, yes, there is a winter scene in Central Park, rendered as a child with a very experienced...
...Dick and Jane textbooks that for more than four decades helped teach American schoolchildren to read ("See me run. See Spot run. Oh, oh! This is fun."); in Frankfort, Ind. Sharp's simple, repetitive prose telling of an archetypal middle-class family with its dog, Spot, and cat, Puff, came under fire from feminists in the early 1970s for stereotyping Jane as subordinate to Dick. "It never bothered the children," replied Sharp. "That's all an adult's viewpoint...
...penned a splendid processional, all pomp and circumference, for Brian Blessed as Old Deuteronomy, the group's sage and patriarch. For Elaine Paige, who was the original West End Evita and here plays a tattered cat of the evening named Grizabella, Lloyd Webber wrote the show's first hit single, a melancholy bolero called Memory...
...Cats has more in mind than presenting a kitty Chorus Line. It means to investigate "the mystical divinity of unashamed felinity." In the second act, Cats turns ruminative, elegiac and theatrically spectacular. Old Gus (Steven Tate), who had wheezed his disapproval of life onto the current stage, suddenly metamorphoses into his dream role of Growltiger, a samurai pirate cat-and the playground bursts into a kaleidoscope of colorful costumes and Kabuki gymnastics. Rum Tum Tugger, the cool cat of rock (Paul Nicholas), tells the story of magical Mr. Mistoffelees (Royal Ballet Dancer Wayne Sleep), who displays twisting, spiraling, pirouetting feats...
Since its May opening, Cats has been London's hottest ticket. The show's composer and director plan to visit New York City soon to entertain bids for a Broadway version of Cats from some of the same angels who thought the project too risky to invest in when it needed funds a few months ago. So the Prince of Wales and his bride-to-be are not the only British couple who have reason to smile these days. Catch Lloyd Webber or Nunn off-guard, and you are likely to see a mile-wide Cheshire-cat grin...