Archives for October 27, 2005

I’m temporarily preoccupied with writing for money. Excuse me while I earn a living! You’ll find lots of places to visit in the right-hand column, assuming you’ve already read everything in this column.

See you tomorrow.

I’m temporarily preoccupied with writing for money. Excuse me while I earn a living! You’ll find lots of places to visit in the right-hand column, assuming you’ve already read everything in this column.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s my list of recommended Broadway and off-Broadway shows, updated each Thursday. In all cases, I either gave these shows strongly favorable reviews in The Wall Street Journal when they opened or saw and liked them some time in the past year (or both). For more information, click on the title.

Warning: Broadway shows marked with an asterisk were sold out, or nearly so, last week.

BROADWAY:

– Absurd Person Singular (comedy, PG, adult subject matter, closes Dec. 18, reviewed here)

– Avenue Q* (musical, R, adult subject matter, strong language, one show-stopping scene of puppet-on-puppet sex, reviewed here)

– Chicago* (musical, R, adult subject matter, sexual content, fairly strong language)

– Dirty Rotten Scoundrels* (musical, R, extremely vulgar, reviewed here)

– Doubt* (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, implicit sexual content, reviewed here)

– Fiddler on the Roof (musical, G, one scene of mild violence but otherwise family-friendly, closes Jan. 8, reviewed here)

– The Light in the Piazza* (musical, PG-13, adult subject matter and a brief bedroom scene, closes Mar. 26, reviewed here)

– Sweet Charity (musical, PG-13, lots of cutesy-pie sexual content, reviewed here)

– The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee* (musical, PG-13, mostly family-friendly but contains a smattering of strong language and a production number about an unwanted erection, reviewed here)

OFF BROADWAY:

– Orson’s Shadow (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, very strong language, closes Dec. 31, reviewed here)

– Slava’s Snowshow (performance art, G, child-friendly, reviewed here)

CLOSING THIS WEEKEND:

– The Caterers (drama, R, violence, strong language, explicit sexual situations, reviewed here, closes Sunday)

– Sides: The Fear Is Real… (sketch comedy, PG, some strong language, reviewed here, closes Sunday)

Here’s my list of recommended Broadway and off-Broadway shows, updated each Thursday. In all cases, I either gave these shows strongly favorable reviews in The Wall Street Journal when they opened or saw and liked them some time in the past year (or both). For more information, click on the title.

Warning: Broadway shows marked with an asterisk were sold out, or nearly so, last week.

BROADWAY:

– Absurd Person Singular (comedy, PG, adult subject matter, closes Dec. 18, reviewed here)

– Avenue Q* (musical, R, adult subject matter, strong language, one show-stopping scene of puppet-on-puppet sex, reviewed here)

– Chicago* (musical, R, adult subject matter, sexual content, fairly strong language)

– Dirty Rotten Scoundrels* (musical, R, extremely vulgar, reviewed here)

– Doubt* (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, implicit sexual content, reviewed here)

– Fiddler on the Roof (musical, G, one scene of mild violence but otherwise family-friendly, closes Jan. 8, reviewed here)

– The Light in the Piazza* (musical, PG-13, adult subject matter and a brief bedroom scene, closes Mar. 26, reviewed here)

– Sweet Charity (musical, PG-13, lots of cutesy-pie sexual content, reviewed here)

– The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee* (musical, PG-13, mostly family-friendly but contains a smattering of strong language and a production number about an unwanted erection, reviewed here)

OFF BROADWAY:

– Orson’s Shadow (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, very strong language, closes Dec. 31, reviewed here)

– Slava’s Snowshow (performance art, G, child-friendly, reviewed here)

CLOSING THIS WEEKEND:

– The Caterers (drama, R, violence, strong language, explicit sexual situations, reviewed here, closes Sunday)

– Sides: The Fear Is Real… (sketch comedy, PG, some strong language, reviewed here, closes Sunday)

– Royalty paid in 1940 to Aaron Copland for each performance of his score for the Eugene Loring ballet Billy the Kid: $40

– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $532.28

(Source: Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis, Copland: 1900 Through 1942)

– Royalty paid in 1940 to Aaron Copland for each performance of his score for the Eugene Loring ballet Billy the Kid: $40

– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $532.28

(Source: Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis, Copland: 1900 Through 1942)

“Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on C

“Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.”