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Tag: 04.30.17
Playing Cyrano And Trying Very, Very Hard Not To Sing Through The Nose
The process of getting Roberto Alagna’s Cyrano nose right took a while, a facial cast, and the sticky adhesive known as Pros-Aide. Alagna: “It’s difficult because you can’t have the resonance of the sound. … You have no resonance at all! It’s like putting cotton on a violin.”
Top AJBlogs From The Weekend Of 04.30.17
Black Eye Porn
“Normally The Guardian publishes all of Rowson’s cartoons, but I don’t think this one. He mailed it to Heathcote who forwarded it to me. Heathcote wrote the lines when I asked him.” — Gerard … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2017-04-28
On charging admission at the Met
The New York Times reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is looking at options to make its “suggested” entry fee into something a little stronger than a hint, at least for people who live … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2017-04-28
Nora and the mansplainer
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway premiere of A Doll’s House, Part 2. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Hugh Kenner defined conceptual art as that which, once described, need not be … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-04-28
Canadian Theatre Needs To Go Way Beyond A Hashtag
The deal: “I want a contemporary colour palette. I want the people of the world that I see around me to be telling those stories. That homogenous world that I see onstage [traditionally]? It’s just not my world. I don’t recognize that.”