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Billevesées: Texts from the Aisle

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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). Texts from the Aisle. Miranda (far right) and company. New York’s theater world has been in a tizzy since Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the hit musical Hamilton. Revealed that he’d asked stage management not. Hamilton. He’s the guy on the money, right? He’s Latin. Did not know that about him. OMG this totally hot guy from Grindr is sitting in the balcony. Remember to schedule cleansing after the show. Personally I don...

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Billevesées: February 2015

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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). 8220;I have been and always shall be your friend.”. Yet looking at Spock now, I see something else. Quite a number of people, including the President of the United States, talk about how Spock was different, an alien among earthlings on the Enterprise. And a half-human among Vulcans. Yet Spock chose his sides: he held himself to the Vulcan standard. And he failed. Kirk knew from the beginning that Spock’s deepest feelings wer...

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Billevesées: Preview: Collegiate Chorale Performs Weill’s ‘Road of Promise’

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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). Preview: Collegiate Chorale Performs Weill’s ‘Road of Promise’. There may never have been a show as big as The Eternal Road. The sheer scale of the spectacle as originally conceived would be enough to discourage producers from reviving The Eternal Road. For Weill’s centennial, 63 years after the premiere, The Eternal Road. Was revived, in a restored edition under its original German title, Der Weg der Verheißung. At Carnegie Hall M...

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Billevesées: August 2014

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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). When people say (and they do) that New York is like a mistress, I know what they mean. The city is smart and beautiful and sophisticated. We love New York, but it demands a great deal from us in return, and it doesn’t always love us back. To my mind, then, New York looks a lot like Lauren Bacall. And thanked her. “Isn’t it nice to know that you can have an affect on people like that? 8221; Bacall said. The odd thing is how little t...

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Who Rakes the Forests?: June 2011

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Who Rakes the Forests? Influences - Inspirations - Memories - Experiences - Thoughts - Opinions - Conclusions. Live your life to the fullest. Dance as if no one were watching,. Sing as if no one were listening,. And live every day as if it were your last. Sunday, June 19, 2011. All the adjectives in the world would not be enough to describe my father. Suffice it to say, he was the PERFECT father. His sole purpose in life was to make the lives of his family better. I was 26 when he died at age 55 in 1979.

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Tutto Pavarotti: Su Arte y su Carrera: 1/08/08

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Tutto Pavarotti: Su Arte y su Carrera. Domingo, 17 de agosto de 2008. Luciano Pavarotti (1935 - 2007): Introducción a su voz y su arte. Localidad de Emilia-Romagna, provincia que fue cuna de grandes cantantes. Empieza cantando junto a su padre en el coro local de la Sociedad Gioacchino Rossini, mientras vive de sus trabajos de vendedor de seguros y profesor de escuela. Las primeras y fundamentales lecciones las toma con Arrigo Pola. Pero en 1955 Leone Magiera. Llama la atención de Alessandro Ziliani.

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Billevesées: November 2014

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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). Martinů’s ‘Alexandre’ and ‘Comedy’. Cast: Ott, Siladie, Dennis, Slayden, Beutel, Fischer (standing, left to right), with Sørensen and Smith-Kotlarek (kneeling). This and all photos by Richard Termine,. Courtesy of Gotham Chamber Opera. Arriving late (gee, thanks, MTA) to the October 16 performance of Gotham Chamber Opera. And so on that subject my perspectives are (naturally) authoritative. Proved more satisfying than Alexandre.

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Billevesées: December 2014

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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). Cuba Welcomes Discussion of Human Rights. HAVANA - As President Barack Obama declared that normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba will give the United States the chance to engage the island dictatorship directly on the subject of human rights, Cuban President Raúl Castro announced that he welcomes such discussions. Posted by William V. Madison. Interview: Isabel Leonard on Kapilow’s ‘Gertrude McFuzz’. Concert adaptations of the...

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Billevesées: Fort Worth Opera Scraps Festival, Announces New Premiere

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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). Fort Worth Opera Scraps Festival, Announces New Premiere. FORT WORTH, TEXAS - At a surprise press conference this morning, Fort Worth Opera. General director Darren K. Woods unveiled a plan that would scrap this year’s festival in favor of an entirely new work by composer David T. Little and librettist Royce Vavrek, for three weeks of performances. The Haushofmeister’s Revenge. An opera in five acts, will premiere on April 24.

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Billevesées: March 2015

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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). Coleman, Comden and Green’s ‘On the Twentieth Century’ Returns to Broadway. Oscar and Lily, Pygmalion and Pygmalia:. The Roundabout Theatre’s revival of On the Twentieth Century. And 83 years after the Hawks movie, the only people who remember Belasco are opera fans who acknowledge him as the author of the plays that inspired Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. And The Girl of the Golden West. Romping through “Babbette.”. As the religious ...