“Music and performing was my way of getting through that, and it healed me in some ways. You perform in front of people and get your feelings out, and then you can retreat again and be your private person.”
Tag: 03.16.14
Mitch Leigh, Who Wrote ‘Man of La Mancha,’ Dead At 86
“Mitch Leigh, the Brooklyn-born son of a Jewish furrier from Ukraine, had no theater experience to speak of. All he had ever done was compose incidental music for a couple of short-lived Broadway comedies — “Too True to Be Good” (1963) and “Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory” (1964).”
Italian Police Say There’s Hope For A Klimt Painting Stolen 17 Years Ago
“The oil painting, believed to date from 1916-1917, was stolen from the Ricci-Oddi gallery in Piacenza in February 1997 and disappeared without a trace. Now, thanks to more sophisticated testing of the frame, investigators are hoping that new test results will provide a DNA match with one or more suspects.”
Apparently No One Wants To See ‘The Full Monty’ Anymore
“The play about unemployed steelworkers who turn to stripping opened at the Noel Coward Theatre in London on February 25 and will stage its last performance on March 29. It had been due to run until mid-June.”
In Greece, Nobody (Except The Government) Wants To Sell Off Famous Greek Buildings Near The Acropolis
“Furious opponents marched through the city centre at the weekend to denounce the ‘illegal sale’ of the country’s heritage. More than four years into debt-stricken Greece’s prolonged economic crisis, many described the step as the height of humiliation for a nation already hit by excoriating austerity and record levels of poverty and unemployment.”
Would Plato Tweet About His Lunch? (Hint: Unlikely)
“What can we do to give our lives a moreness that will help withstand the eons of time that will soon cover us over, blotting out the fact that we ever existed at all? Really, why did we bother to show up for our existence in the first place? The Greek speakers were as obsessed with this question as we are.”
The Americans Are Coming! Disney Invades The UK
Well, the Disney Channel, anyway, filming for the first time a live action production there. See, there’s this teenager, and this country manor, and … a magical tapestry, of course.
The ‘Eiffel Tower of Russia’ Is Going To Be Destroyed
“Commissioned by Lenin and completed in 1922, the tower was intended to spread the word of Communism through the new radio technology and to stand for the regime’s revolutionary ambition.”