Des McAnuff News
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For sheer, grin-inducing pleasure, it’s hard to top the tongue-twisting vocal marathon that is “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General.”
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While the devil was still putting on his white suit and top hat for the new production at the Metropolitan Opera of Gounod’s “Faust,” mere mortals were starting their night with cocktails in the Grand Tier.
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It’s the show people love to hate: the Whitney Museum has gathered 51 artists for its 76th Biennial. Some are just ghastly, but that’s expected of course. (See our review by Lance Esplund).
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“Jesus Christ Superstar” begins not with a soothing hymn but with the screaming wail of an electric guitar advertising the Gospel according to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
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When Faust, such a preferable personality to Santa, sings his goodbye to this planet, a vision of peace and plenty flows from him in rapturous melody.
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Stephen Colbert ponders ‘truthiness” and shows satirical bits from recent episodes he will probably riff on before a live audience tonight at the Wellmont Theatre.
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If there’s an actor who can do shambolic pathos better than the great Michael Gambon , he hasn’t appeared on the theater scene yet. If there’s a play better suited to exploit this quality than Samuel Beckett ’s short monologue “Krapp’s Last Tape,” now at London’s Duchess Theatre , it hasn’t surfaced on the theatrical radar either.
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You have 58 chances left to catch “Jesus Christ Superstar” at Canada’s Stratford Festival and decide for yourself whether Des McAnuff’s chilling revival deserves the hoopla that has made it the summer’s most talked- about show.
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New York City is home to 120,000 Britons -- more than you might expect -- and a few famous ones are now the toast of a London exhibition.
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Launched in 1953 by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival attracts many of the best directors and stars, who tend to keep coming back for more. It’s the most consistent Woodstock for Shakespeare fans on the continent.
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