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Another op'nin', another show," sings the cast at the start of Kiss Me, Kate, but the Broadway revival was another show a-closin' in the days that followed Sept. 11. Even after the unions agreed to a 25% pay cut to keep ailing Broadway shows alive, Kate's producers still couldn't see a way to continue. Then a stagehand came up with a hey-kids-let's-save-the-show idea: if the cast and crew would voluntarily give up another 25% of their pay for four weeks and use the money to buy tickets for fire fighters...
...their parents' handouts and minimum-wage jobs. Employment for life? These kids don't think much past tonight's handful of mushrooms. These are the latest incarnation of the people Japanese mothers used to warn their kids about, the types known pejoratively as furyo, good-for-nothings, or asobi-nin, partyers, who would never get jobs in big companies and would never wear business suits. Their lifestyle, in short, is perfectly suited to the laid-back ethic embodied by freewheeling psychedelia. "It's the result of affluence," says Mariko Fujiwara, director of research at Tokyo's Hakuhodo Institute of Life...
...Perfect Circle couldn't be in a better position to explode onto the hard rock market. First, they are spending most of this year touring with Nine Inch Nails (a.k.a. Trent Reznor), a show that has sold out across the country in anticipation of the first NIN live shows since The Downward Spiral...
...that a violin? Yes, Tool fans. You will be shocked to find that A Perfect Circle employs a permanent violinist, Paz Lenchantin, who doubles as the bassist. But the focus never changes from Keenan's depressingly enchanting voice, and the music always remains hard enough to blow away most NIN fans during the opening act. B -Christopher R. Blazejewski...
...cast of characters as diverse in chronology as they are in personality. There's an angry and suicidal Ernest Hemingway who acts as Garnett's servant, the under-recognized and frustrated feminist author Djuna Barnes, the heroine-addicted mother of Eugene O'Neil, and the aforementioned Anas Nin, played with delightfully French self-absorption by Karen MacDonald. Not to mention the entire cast of characters from The Brothers Karamazov, with Alyosha Karamazov (played with effective, i.e. not annoying, wholesomeness by Sean Dugan) serving as Durang's Everyman character in this absurdist romp...