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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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Billevesées: April 2015
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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: Interview: Justin Hopkins on ‘The Road of Promise’
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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). Interview: Justin Hopkins on ‘The Road of Promise’. Among the cast of the Collegiate Chorale. 8217;s upcoming U.S. premiere of Kurt Weill’s The Road of Promise. The name Justin Hopkins. Stands out. The bass-baritone will sing the role of the Dark Angel next week, and I first encountered him at Fort Worth Opera. In Glass’ Hydrogen Jukebox. All those years ago informed my performance this year.”. But just to engage. Which incorporate...
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Billevesées: July 2014
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Fiction, non-fiction, and nonsense from an American in Paris (sometimes). Fort Worth’s ‘Hamlet’ Opera Discriminates Against Danes, Activists Say. Stereotyping Danes is the last socially acceptable form of bigotry in America today, protesters say. FORT WORTH - Like the Shakespeare play that preceded it, Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet. A five-act opera in French from 1868, discriminates against Danes, leading Danish Rights activists charge, warning Fort Worth Opera. 8220;All of these Hamlets were required to wear...
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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...