Category Archives: Dance

LYRIC OPERA’S THE KING AND I: AN OPULENT BEAUTY AND THE NICE GUY

At the heart of all of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s great musicals – Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and The King and I – is the tale of Beauty and the Beast. Each Beauty – Laurey, Julie, Nellie, Maria, Anna – transforms the macho wild Beast in their life – helps their man […]

May 7, 2016 – 10:36 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Dance, from Paul, History, Men and Women, Music, Opera, Quotations, Theater, Uncategorized | Comments Off on LYRIC OPERA’S THE KING AND I: AN OPULENT BEAUTY AND THE NICE GUY

ROBERT JOFFREY’S THE NUTCRACKER: Christmas in the Shadow of Death

Chicago’s Auditorium Theater is the perfect setting to view Robert Joffery’s jarring, beautiful, and profound interpretation of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker danced brilliantly by his namesake company, and played wonderfully by the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. Adler and Sullivan’s magnificent theater interior was meant “to express growth and decadence as the two great cyclic […]

December 11, 2015 – 5:30 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Dance, from Paul, History, Music, Poetry, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on ROBERT JOFFREY’S THE NUTCRACKER: Christmas in the Shadow of Death