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Don’t You F***ing Say a Word

In today’s highly charged environment, when every swear word is dissected under the politically correct microscope, the title of this play is a thin veil of friendship and rivalry.  Spoiler alert: the audience hears the real McCoy, several times. Playing at 59E59 Theaters, the production runs through December 4. Kudos

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November Jobs Report Shows Some Positive Signs

The U.S. Department of Labor released its November jobs report recently saying total nonfarm payment employment rose by over 200,000 and the unemployment rate is now declared to be 5.8 percent. Why should you care? There’s one very important reason and then a few smaller ones. I usually tell people

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Equality for Women in the Military – What Roles Should They Play?

In 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter opened more military jobs to women, specifically combat arms roles. Last year, the first two female officers made it through the rigorous Army Ranger School, in Fort Benning, Georgia. Woman are striving for equal promotion to the highest echelon of the military. Some savvy go

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Carousel – Life Isn’t Always a Merry-Go-Round

Carousel was the second musical produced by the dynamic team of Rodgers and Hammerstein following their ground breaking Oklahoma! If audiences expected another feel good show, they were surprised. Carousel is based on Liliom, a somber 1909 play by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár. A failure when it was first staged

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Finian’s Rainbow – Fantasy, Romance, and Politics

Over and above enchanting music and a fantasy love story, this 1947 musical features corrupt politicians, vast economic disparity, blatant racial bigotry, and hope for the future, borrowing a premise from another story whose rainbow is pivotal. Need you ask why now? How does it hold up? Well, songs are

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Street Seens: Sidewalk Art to Look Up To

Mary Poppins and Bert used magic to create sidewalk art that opened a whole new world to the children and them. Courtesy of the artist they discovered wondrous new places and people that charmed, amazed and inspired. Church of St. Vincent Ferrer toward Great East Window At absolutely no risk of

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Songs & Stories With Harvey Granat: On Jule Styne

Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein 1905-1994) was a British American songwriter who contributed to over 1500 published songs (“All of which we’re going to do for you today,” Harvey Granat quips) and 25 Broadway shows. He earned 10 Academy Award nominations, winning one. Styne was a 10 year-old prodigy, a

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Poet’s Corner: “Veteran” – Robin Clark

It is the person of the heart which holds the heart of others. The hearts of Sisters, Brothers, Fathers, the hearts of our Dear Mothers. They go and battle for who they love, The Whats, the Whys, and those above. They take the chance to lose their life To say

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Don’t You F***ing Say a Word

In today’s highly charged environment, when every swear word is dissected under the politically correct microscope, the title of this play is a thin veil of friendship and rivalry.  Spoiler alert: the audience hears the real McCoy, several times. Playing at 59E59 Theaters, the production runs through December 4. Kudos to the set designer for creating a tennis court in such a small, intimate space. Clever lighting and removable tape help transform the blue-hued space

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November Jobs Report Shows Some Positive Signs

The U.S. Department of Labor released its November jobs report recently saying total nonfarm payment employment rose by over 200,000 and the unemployment rate is now declared to be 5.8 percent. Why should you care? There’s one very important reason and then a few smaller ones. I usually tell people who are looking for a job to turn off the television news because generally speaking, it’s too easy to be swayed by the moods of

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Equality for Women in the Military – What Roles Should They Play?

In 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter opened more military jobs to women, specifically combat arms roles. Last year, the first two female officers made it through the rigorous Army Ranger School, in Fort Benning, Georgia. Woman are striving for equal promotion to the highest echelon of the military. Some savvy go getters have succeeded, standing shoulder to shoulder with their top brass male counterparts.  The few females who succeed in reaching those levels have found opportunities

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Carousel – Life Isn’t Always a Merry-Go-Round

Carousel was the second musical produced by the dynamic team of Rodgers and Hammerstein following their ground breaking Oklahoma! If audiences expected another feel good show, they were surprised. Carousel is based on Liliom, a somber 1909 play by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár. A failure when it was first staged in Hungary, Liliom fared better when it was produced on Broadway in 1921. Carousel, which opened on Broadway in 1945, received positive reviews and has

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Finian’s Rainbow – Fantasy, Romance, and Politics

Over and above enchanting music and a fantasy love story, this 1947 musical features corrupt politicians, vast economic disparity, blatant racial bigotry, and hope for the future, borrowing a premise from another story whose rainbow is pivotal. Need you ask why now? How does it hold up? Well, songs are still swell, though somewhat thinner due to a small cast , the two attitudes/subjects remain strange bedfellows, and the piece has been so condensed that

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Street Seens: Sidewalk Art to Look Up To

Mary Poppins and Bert used magic to create sidewalk art that opened a whole new world to the children and them. Courtesy of the artist they discovered wondrous new places and people that charmed, amazed and inspired. Church of St. Vincent Ferrer toward Great East Window At absolutely no risk of overstatement I can say to all of us dwellers in our urban village who stroll the enclave of the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer (SVF),

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Songs & Stories With Harvey Granat: On Jule Styne

Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein 1905-1994) was a British American songwriter who contributed to over 1500 published songs (“All of which we’re going to do for you today,” Harvey Granat quips) and 25 Broadway shows. He earned 10 Academy Award nominations, winning one. Styne was a 10 year-old prodigy, a favorite pianist at Chicago mob clubs, played in a band, and acted as vocal coach at Twentieth Century Fox. Sammy Cahn was his first writing

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Poet’s Corner: “Veteran” – Robin Clark

It is the person of the heart which holds the heart of others. The hearts of Sisters, Brothers, Fathers, the hearts of our Dear Mothers. They go and battle for who they love, The Whats, the Whys, and those above. They take the chance to lose their life To say good bye to man and wife…. To leave their Mom’s and Dad’s at home To know they may be left to roam: To roam the

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