Photo by Paola Gianturco from the book Celebrating Women
Julie
Taymor’s costumes for The
Lion King are plain wonderful. The musical is traveling. See it in New York, California, Minnesota, Maryland,
Arizona, Massachusetts
or Illinois.
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Julie
Taymor’s new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) is magical. Masked“bird ladies” on stilts wear hoop skirts. The winged Queen
of the Night sprouts spider-like fingers.
There are giant puppets, animal-shaped kites, even massive dancing bears.
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Little
Women Louisa May Alcott’s classic American Civil War story
of Jo (played by Tony award winning Sutton Foster) and her three
sisters has been
turned into a musical.
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Wicked,
a post feminist, socially-conscious
musical reinterpretation of the story of Oz’s Elphaba, the
Wicked Witch of the West and
Glinda, the Good Witch who have an unlikely, mutual admiration society.
Reviewers say it’s “a big, bold, brassy, no-holds-barred,
intelligent
spectacle.”
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The
annual Ethnic Dance Festival has, for 25 years, presented
diverse world dances: classical, sacred, vernacular and folk, all by
the Bay Area ethnic communities.
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Anna
Karenina, the ballet, will be
performed mid-May 2005 at the Majestic Theater in Boston. Tolstoy’s
story of passion and power in St. Petersburg Russia will be danced
by the Eifman Ballet.
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Mama Mia! is at the Winter Garden Theater, New York. The sunny,
funny musical unfolds on a tiny Greek island. On the eve of her
wedding, a daughter's
quest to discover her father’s identity brings 3 lovers from
her mother's past back 20 years later.
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