It’s turfing, a style of street-dance that was created in the city about twenty years ago and is now booming.
Archives for February 26, 2014
‘Annie’ Co-Creator Disses Recent Broadway Revival (As His Colleagues Run the Other Way)
Martin Charnin, lyricist and director of the original production (and of an upcoming non-Equity tour): “The entire [original] creative team (Tom, Charles, and I) simply had to restore the charm and the magic of the musical, that has endured for lo, these many years, and that seemed to veer off-course in the recent Broadway production.” Composer Charles Strouse and book writer Thomas Meehan very promptly disavowed Charnin’s statement.
Will This Mean a Sixth Tony for Audra McDonald?
“The five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will make an unexpected return to Broadway this spring – in time to qualify for the 2014 Tonys – to play Billie Holiday in the musical play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.”
Amtrak’s Writers-in-Residence Idea: What Would DFW Do?
Vauhini Vara looks to David Foster Wallace’s great cruise ship essay, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”.
Booksellers in France Get Naked to Protest Attempted Censorship of ‘Everybody Get Naked!’
“A group of French booksellers and publishers took off their clothes Wednesday to protest conservative politician Jean-François Copé’s call to censor a children’s book from 2011 called Everybody Get Naked! (Tous à poil!).”