Word: deborah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musical off life support? Director Susan Stroman and writer John Weidman have an answer: Cut out the singing. Their exhilarating show is composed of three heartfelt love stories told in dance and dialogue accompanied mostly by a wildly diverse jukebox of pop records and enlivened by the performances of Deborah Yates and Karen Ziemba...
...story of King Mongkut and Anna Leonowens is known to most, having been visited in the 1946 movie Anna and the King of Siam as well as the catchy and charming Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I (starring the unforgettable Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr). The story is simple: the king of Siam hires a foreign schoolteacher to teach his court (including his 58 children) English and give insight into the ways of the West. A clash of traditions and customs ensue, but so does a growing relationship between the stern ruler and the headstrong schoolteacher...
...ridiculously sinister Depalowski goes out of his way to persecute (and believe me, he really goes out of his way) a black boy out of all the black boys that are in his jurisdiction. Nor are we ever told the process by which the three Canadians (John Hannah, Deborah Unger, Live Schreiber) suddenly become best friends with Carter and decide to move to New Jersey (!) to fight for his release. And because so much of the movie centers round Carter and Carter alone, the other characters are left curiously two-dimensional, with no real reason for the audience to relate...
...Deborah Wojcik's paintings of small boys are set apart from the other pieces by their neatly stylized, almost commercial execution; they are a smart treatment of issues of self-presentation that are usually seen only in the feminine inflection. Like most any group show, "Salon" is uneven and loose; however, it contains samples of compelling, skillful and surprisingly mature work...
Michael P. Abate Deborah A. Abeles Brian T. Abrams Michael S. Abramson Jaylaan Ahmad-Llewellyn Fahim Ahmed Stephanie N. Ajudua Rima Al-Mokarrab Michael E. Aldous Georgia N. Alexakis Jen J. B. Allen James A. Allison Elise B. Alschuler Mia C. R. Alvar Maneesh R. Amancharla Christopher A. Amar Jessie M. Amberg Richard H. Amberg Caitlin E. Anderson Blair M. Andresen Becky M. Antar Azunna E. Anyanwu Christina E. Anzuoni Patrick R. Aquino Ethan D. S. Ard Adam I. Arenson Eric R. Ashley David C. Atherton William F. Austin Erin L. Autry Irina Babushkina Daniel B. Baer Anna M. Baldwin...