“Comedy is always tough to explain, but the magic of the Mighty Boosh is particularly elusive. The show’s opening sequence calls it a ‘”journey through time and space,’ but it’s more like a fantastical children’s show for pop culturally overloaded adult brains, a mash-up of fairy-tale plots, surreal humor, nimble dialogue, twisted musical numbers and homespun visuals and animation.”
Tag: 07.27.09
Rockefeller Center Murals Get A Sistine Chapel-Style Cleaning
“[At the] lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, that movie-set-perfect Art Deco interior, … for the last nine months a team of six conservators has all but moved in and will be there for the next two years. Carefully concealed behind giant scrims, they spend hour after hour methodically removing decades of yellowed varnish from the building’s famed murals, one inch at a time.”
Can One Create ‘An Authentically Elizabethan Theatrical Experience’ In Modern-Day America?
The theatre company at Shakespeare’s Globe in London means to find out: this fall the group will perform Love’s Labors Lost at eight U.S. universities. “The lights will remain on in the theater, to try to mimic the outdoor feel of the Globe, and characters will talk directly to audience members (or look at them as they talk to other characters).”
Bauhaus Returns To Berlin In Biggest-Ever Retrospective
“Once celebrated as Europe’s leading art and design school, by early 1933 the Bauhaus was reduced to camping in a hastily converted telephone factory on the outskirts of Berlin and subsisting on handouts from its director, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Denouncing it as ‘un-German,’ the newly elected Nazi government forced the school to close.” Now a major exhibition on the school has opened – next door to the old Gestapo headquarters.
Michael Jackson, The Dancer
“Whether he went it alone or got help, the result was much the same. He didn’t have a lot of moves. You can almost count them on your fingers: the gyrating hips, the bending knees (reversing from inward to outward), the pivoting feet (ditto), the one raised knee, the spins, and, above all, the rotated or raised heel, which is what he gets around on. These steps are generally done staccato.”