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...passed your suggestion along to coach Frank McLaughlin and he said he will let you know. He is sifting through offers from a church in Brookline, a playground in Jamaica Plain and an alleyway in Charlestown, but he has your address and he will be around to inspect the site...
Through the cheerfully gaping maw of Big Bird, beguiled children with parents in tow enter a dazzling futuristic playground designed to make pedagogy a pleasure. Created a year ago by the same people who brought you Kermit the Frog, Ernie and Bert, Sesame Place, in the tamed wilds of Bucks County, Pa., unites outdoor "participatory" playgrounds with "handson" scientific exhibits...
Memories on the porch tend to dwell on the glory days, when Atlantic City was fixed in the national consciousness as the middle-class playground, and the "prospect of a stroll on the Boardwalk-better yet, a ride in a wicker rolling chair-warmed the days all winter long...
...appeared in 1939, Practical Cats comprised 14 poems; Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow, discovered others, which have been incorporated into the production, and notes that suggested a structure and a setting. John Napier, the show's designer, has transformed the New London Theater into a giant playground for cats, cluttered with trash cans, an auto carcass, bicycles and tires...
...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 of legerdepied. Finally, Old Deuteronomy bestows a rare gift on the down...