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...sickly dependent on A Christmas Carol. Dozens of troupes mount Dickens' sentimental fantasy year after year -- using at least 20 different adaptations, most by artistic directors yearning to be credited as authors -- with ever diminishing artistic vigor yet unflagging box-office success. The profusion of wigs, frock coats and fake British accents typically has little to do with the rest of these companies' productions or the core creative reasons they exist. The show serves only as a cash cow and, in extreme cases, a tool for extortion: at some theaters, the right to buy seats is granted only to season...
Barnard junior Jennifer Nelson, an active participant in the coalition, said her group rejects the plan as "tokenism" and calls the compromise "fake...
Dicke portrays the victimized Audrey without making her seem like a hopeless caricature. Her touching ballad "Somewhere That's Green" is a hysterical list of simple dreams: "in a tract house we share...I cook like Betty Crocker and I look like Donna Reed..." Even dressed in fake fur and leopard skin and singing lines like "I know Seymour's the greatest but I'm dating a semi-sadist," Dicke manages to make us empathize with her plight...
...Shilling clearly intends to make her presence felt as a director. For example, when Claudio and Don Pedro fool the eavesdropping Benedick with a fake conversation, she has the messenger (Bloom) fishing in the background. By snaring the innocent fish with his bait, he parallels the action unfolding in front of him. But what is the point? Does he really add to the scene? Or is the director just tossing in a self-conscious conceit...
...couple of years ago students playeddifferent games with fake guns," he said. "This isnot the first time we have dealt with somethinglike this...