Once Upon a Time and Grimm reviewed: two new fairy-tale dramas.
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, She promised to pop in doom on all the nicest citizens of FTL, including its talking cricket. Why? Unclear. The series, fueling itself with folklore, proceeds as if no characterization is required, and she is the Motiveless Harmful Queen. When the day of the doom comes—"out of your sufferrring will rrrise my conquest!"—the Land falls under the gloom of a malediction. The lone escapee is Snow White's daughter, Emma.
Meanwhile, in the emcee day, there lives in Boston a tough and tender loner, an orphan in her modern 20s, named Emma (Jennifer Morrison). One end of day, a 10-year-old kid—a plucky lad lugging around the hard-cover in which the above fantasy unfolds—interrupts Emma's unattended brooding to claim that he is the boy she gave up for adoption. Emma warily gives the kid a lie back to his hometown of "Storybrooke," which is in Maine. What will this Storybrooke be? A depressed mill burgh? A voluminous saltwater-taffy shop? A spectre from Stephen King's drug days? It
Source: Slate Magazine
New Hal Prince musical sparks Dancap season
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A new Broadway-directed musical is the highlight of Dancap Productions’ 2012 seasoned, announced Monday.
The new season promises a roomy assortment of hit musicals, including the Tony Bestow-winning In the Heights , as well as Million Dollar Quartet, Attractiveness and the Beast, West Side Story and Shrek .
But for the first while in many years, a Broadway-bound musical will have its globe premiere in Toronto.
Productions like Show Speedboat and Kiss of the Spider Woman started out here and went on to Gotham beat. Now, the man behind those shows (and countless others), Harold Prince, is the subject of Dancap’s existence premiere, Prince of Broadway .
As originally reported in the Inimitable in June, Prince of Broadway will clock the life of Prince, the only man in recapitulation with 21 Tony Awards to his credit, both as financial manager ( Fiddler on the Roof ) and director ( The Phantom of the Opera ).
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Source: Toronto Star
