“P&O has its own on-board theatre company with more than 100 entertainers, Royal Caribbean is staging cruise versions of Hairspray and Chicago, and elsewhere there are licensed versions of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals or other popular shows such as Saturday Night Fever.“
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Heart of Darkness Becomes a Graphic Novel
“Catherine Anyango, whose drawings are peppered with David Zane Mairowitz’s adaptation of the text, had her doubts about tackling the Polish-born novelist’s most famous work. Those reservations had more to do with the original medium than the enduring controversy over Conrad’s views or the familiarity of Heart of Darkness.”
Tony Kushner on Karl Marx
“What happened under Stalin was horrendous, but in point of fact, Marx never really worked out a solution, it was not his doing. But he was an absolutely astonishing reader of history, and of class. His analysis of capitalism is being proved in America every day.”
Bollywood to Do a Jesus Christ Biopic
“A $30m (£20m) production involving an all-Indian cast of mainly children will begin shooting on location in the Holy Land in October and is scheduled for release next year. As yet untitled and unscripted, the film” – with versions in English and three other languages – “will cover Jesus’s life from birth to crucifixion.”
God? Chance? A Third Possibility: What If the Universe Was Created by a Machine?
“But amid the raging arguments between believers and sceptics, one possibility has been almost ignored – the idea that the universe around us was created by people very much like ourselves, using devices not too dissimilar to those available to scientists today. As with much else in modern physics, the idea involves particle acceleration.”
Is the Pen Mightier? Berlin Gets Bombed With Poetry
“Poetry rained from the skies on Saturday night in Berlin as 100,000 bookmarks printed with poems by 80 poets from Germany and Chile were dropped on the city from a helicopter.”
This Particular Roadside Attraction Gets Repeatedly Humiliated
A California beachfront town “thought it was honoring surfers when it spent $120,000 to erect a 16-foot tall statue of one riding a wave.” No such luck: the sculpture has been variously dressed up like a clown, put in a tutu, devoured by a giant papier-mâché shark.
Broadway Box Office Does Its Late-Summer Slump
“Overall, Broadway box offices grossed $16.1 million last week, compared to $18.1 million the previous week and $16.9 million for the comparable week in 2009. The summertime slump traditionally lingers into late September or early October, depending on the show.”
The Crossroads Of Music (Which Led To A Crisis)
“A concert-goer in the early 1930s would have been faced with two completely different musics – one (Vaughan Williams, Holst, Sibelius, Walton, Strauss, Busoni) remaining within the bounds of the tonal language, the other (Schoenberg and his school) consciously departing from the old language, and often striking a deliberately defiant pose towards it.”
Expert In L’Affaire Ansel Adams Recants
“I made a mistake,” said [Robert C.] Moeller, a former curator of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Boston museum, who was part of the team that in July announced the discovery of what it called Adams’s “lost negatives.”