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Written by Bernard Carragher
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Wednesday, 02 May 2012 09:32 |
Cristin Milioti and Steve Kazee in a scene from ‘Once’ at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater (Photo by Joan Marcus)
NEW YORK – "Once" is the best new musical to arrive on Broadway this season. The show at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater on West 45th Street, adapted from the popular independent film, is not a blockbuster, but rather totally disarming entertainment, really a chamber musical. It tells the simple love story of a young Dublin street busker and a gamine Czech emigré in such a charming manner and with such a gloriously melodious score that it puts most of Broadway’s big-budget shows to shame.
Like all romantic musicals of this kind, it is basically a fairy tale, a play on the "Once upon a time…." theme, as its title suggests. And, although its hero and heroine are known only as Guy and Girl, and meet and part in a moonstruck sort of way, the show is never mawkish.
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Written by Bernard Carragher
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Monday, 02 April 2012 12:55 |
From left, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Finn Witrock, Andrew Garfield, Elizabeth Morton and Stephanie Janssen in Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman,’ directed by Mike Nichols.(Photo by Brigitte Lacombe for New York Magazine)
NEW YORK – Sixty-three years after its premiere, Arthur Miller’s masterpiece "Death of a Salesman" still delivers a terrific theatrical wallop. It’s hard to find any faults with Mike Nichols’s impeccably staged revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on West 47th St., which is acted with great feeling and skill by a gilt-edged cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Linda Edmund as his wife Linda, and Andrew Garfield as Biff and Finn Witrock as Happy, their sons. Nor can one be critical of Mr. Miller’s remarkable play, which is still as meaningful today as it was six decades ago; and so shrewdly constructed, so true to its own genius from scene to scene and line to line, that it becomes for each new generation of playgoers a vivid experience, intensely lived.
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Written by Mary Chalupsky
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Monday, 02 April 2012 12:16 |
Cathedral as viewed from above the sanctuary. (Photo by Bob Mullen/The Catholic Photographer)
HARTFORD – It was an unforgettable evening of triumphs as more than 400 singers and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Edward Bolkovac, performed Giuseppe Verdi’s brilliant Messa da Requiem at a packed Cathedral of St. Joseph March 16.
The 90-minute performance was presented as part of the Sacred Sounds Concert Series and held in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the cathedral.
Billed as the largest-scale production ever performed in the cathedral, the incomparable Requiem featured the combined forces of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra; four soloists; and a massive choral force from the Hartt School choirs, Hartford Chorale, New Haven Chorale and Cathedral Choir.
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:42 |
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HARTFORD – To celebrate the most important holy day of the Christian calendar, the Houghton College Choir, Cathedral Choir, Cathedral Brass, Cathedral String Orchestra and organist Dr. Ezequiel Menéndez will perform an Easter Sunday Concert at 10 a.m. April 8 at the Cathedral of St. Joseph on Farmington Ave.
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Written by Jack Sheedy
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:49 |
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Written by Jack Sheedy
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:35 |
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ENFIELD – Saint Peter sank when he tried to walk on water because he lacked faith. Saint Thomas the Apostle doubted that Jesus rose from the dead. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux struggled with faith even as she lay dying.
They’re saints, anyway. And that gives us hope, especially when the unexpected death of a loved one leaves us feeling abandoned by the God in whom we have placed our faith.
Laura B. Hayden, author of Staying Alive: A Love Story, lost her 49-year-old husband, Larry, to a post-surgery blood clot in 1998. Laura and Larry had been active in their parish, Holy Family in Enfield, since its founding in 1965. "I was a eucharistic minister. He ran the engaged couples program, and he started an unemployment support group in the ’80s," she said.
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Written by Lenora Sumsky
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:25 |
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Thomas Krug watches Ana Colliton at work on her blog. (Photo by Lenora Sumsky)
BLOOMFIELD – Catholic bloggers can connect to the faithful and to the broader community in the Archdiocese of Hartford and around the globe. They are populating the blogosphere with messages that inspire, sustain and strengthen faith.
There is no telling how many Catholics in the archdiocese maintain spiritual blogs. But "Spiritual Devotional," a blog created by a parishioner at St. Peter Claver Church in West Hartford, has readers in more than 50 countries on six continents. Other blogs that originate within the archdiocese include "Come Holy Spirit," written by Father Michael Slusz, pastor at St. Francis of Assisi in Naugatuck; and "Ana’s Blog," authored by Ana Colliton, a sophomore at Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford.
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Written by Bernard Carragher
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Monday, 27 February 2012 15:21 |
Audra McDonald as Bess and Norm Lewis as Porgy. (Photo by Michael J. Lutch)
NEW YORK – Although "The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess," at the Richard Rodgers Theater on West 46th Street, has some admirable moments and presents Audra McDonald, one of the wonders of today’s musical theater, as its principal star, this production is ultimately a disappointing revival of an American classic.
"Porgy and Bess" has not been seen on Broadway in decades, having been mostly confined to opera house repertoire; so for a new generation of theatergoers, this staging is probably its first exposure to the great George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin masterwork. It is unfortunate that director Diane Paulus’s production turns out not to be a fresh look at the work, but rather a haphazard revisionist take on it, with a shortened, rewritten book (Suzan-Lori Parks), newly orchestrated score (Diedre L. Murray), scaled-down cast of 22, minimized abstract set (Richardo Hernandez) and mostly pallid costumes (ESosa). The lighting created by Christopher Akerlind is excellent, however.
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