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...made repackaging the theme of pretty-but-unusual-girl-gets-lucky: handsome prince marries a sea creature (The Little Mermaid), handsome prince marries maiden who's been dozing for a hundred years (Sleeping Beauty), newly handsome prince marries bookworm with eccentric dad (Beauty and the Beast). Funny, though: the curtain falls at the wedding. The implicit message is that the chase is more exciting than the prize...
...Enough distractions. It’s time for the main attraction, but only after an excruciating 20 minute wait that has as its highlight the surprise appearance of one of the 25 finalists who didn’t make the band on the TV show. When the curtain finally drops, and O-Town appears in all their glory, the screaming was enough to drown out every note of their first song, “All for Love.” The song was atrocious when they performed it during the TV show, and they’re better...
...interesting exercise for those of us who wished to experiment with techniques of sonar navigation. Unstymied by repeated requests for audience members to take their seats so that Act II could commence, many of my more adventurous compatriots chose to wait for the houselights to dim and the curtain to rise before groping their way through the darkness to their places. Later, in case the interruptive energy contained within the house was not enough, various public vehicles, anything with a siren really, decided to lead an impromptu combination of drag race and parade outside of the theater. It was only...
...Brooks is sitting near the back of the almost deserted St. James Theatre a couple of hours before curtain time. A reporter is at his right, yet Brooks stares straight ahead at the empty stage while he talks, as if he can't quite believe what will soon be born there. Most people with a big Broadway show about to open would be busy making fixes, rewriting lines, fighting anxiety. Brooks is mainly feeling recharged, in the way 74-year-old comic legends rarely are. "I haven't been this happy since I did my first sketch on Your Show...
...like someone who is tuning an instrument. If they help me, we arrive at the truth. If they don't, I get angry." Nor does his interplay with the public end with the final line of text. On a good night, a sweat-drenched Luchini will return after the curtain calls and launch into a so-called prolongation - an improvised monologue in which he extols Céline's genius, chides people for coughing during his performance, mimics President Jacques Chirac (who attended one of the first performances), and even mocks himself about being such an egregious ham. In fact...