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		<title>Leading lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Jorden One thing you can’t call David McVicar is inept. His productions always work with precision, every movement landing everyone in the right place at the right time, every “still” moment photo-ready. Reportedly he brings shows in on budget and on time, and there’s never a last-minute scramble to improvise some kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plonk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Jorden Of hundreds of juicy anecdotes in Ken Mandelbaum’s indispensable volume Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Flops, one stands out perhaps a little more than the others. It’s about a show called Reuben Reuben which closed out of town in 1955. This was a through-composed absurdist piece by Mark Blitzstein, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water works</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Jorden Most arts-related technology is at least slightly Jekyll-and-Hyde in its implementation, no matter how optimistic the intentions of its creator. For an example of the phenomenon, you need look no farther thafn Robert Lepage&#8216;s Ring, clanking its way back to the stage of the Met this week. Amazing tech, that: all those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twilight of the Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Jorden Revelation comes in the strangest places. Like, for example, I had this eventual moment of clarity about what it was that went wrong in the Lepage Ring, and what do you think sparked it? Of all things, last night’s performance of Ernani at the Met.  Now, this is not to say that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What went wrong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Jorden After putting off for a week trying to make some sense of the horrific mess that is the Met&#8217;s new Faust, I&#8217;m finally just going to give up. There are some disasters that bear writing about as what you might call teaching opportunities: this season&#8217;s Don Giovanni, for example, as a cautionary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ring Recycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Jorden Now that it has become apparent that Robert Lepage&#8217;s production of the Ring at the Met is a fiasco (too soon? Nah.)&#8230; well, anyway, since arguably the production is a dreary, unworkable, overpriced mess whose primary (perhaps only) virtue is that it actually hasn&#8217;t killed anyone yet, and since, let&#8217;s face it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter&#8217;s Principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by James Jorden “I&#8217;ve almost come to the conclusion that this Mr. Hitler isn&#8217;t a Christian,” muses merry murderess Abby Brewster early in the first act of Arsenic and Old Lace, and to tell the truth I’m beginning to think I’m almost as far behind the curve as she was. Recent new productions at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unglamorous Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Jorden The Metropolitan Opera debut of Donizetti&#8217;s Anna Bolena, an amazing 180 years into the work&#8217;s history, won mostly respectful reviews last week—in between snipes at Anna Netrebko&#8217;s momentary breaking of character during the &#8220;Tower Scene.&#8221; A common thread in both published and popular opinion, though, was that the piece itself was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proof of Concept</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY JAMES JORDEN Two monochromatic color schemes, two towering box sets, two wardrobes of lavish period costumes, two ensemble casts, two authentic orchestras—even two brightly-colored dream sequences: There are more than a few superficial similarities between two big-scale revivals playing in New York this week: Atys at BAM and Follies at the Marquis Theater on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse play</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 17:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jorden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Jorden The critics&#8217; reaction to Robert Lepage’s new production of Die Walküre at the Met leaves this contrarian reviewer in something of a quandary. Not only was pretty much everybody underwhelmed, but there was a consensus about what (they thought) was wrong: the clunkiness of The Machine, the lack of poetry in the [...]]]></description>
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