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SWEET AND SOUR.(Curtain Raiser)(BFE)(Theater Review)
In the late fifties, Mike Nichols and Elaine May improvised their way into American theatre history. Their intellectual high-wire act took sketch comedy from the ersatz to the authentic, and Nichols and May became the bedrock beneath all the most probing postwar standup acts, from Mort Sahl to Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. (Allen even wanted to write for them.) At the center of the team's humor was May's sense of daring. "The only safe thing is to take a chance," she told Nichols, who was both amazed at her moxie and inspired by her trust in him. Those issues--of trust and daring--are what May dramatizes in "Curtain Raiser," the first and most exuberant of three one-acters ...
- RU: All Blacks in curtain raiser for women's clash
- Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia) August 12, 2009 700+ words
AAP Sports News (Australia) 08-12-2009 RU: All Blacks in curtain raiser for women's clash WELLINGTON, Aug 12 NZPA - The All Blacks will play the curtain raiser for the New Zealand women's rugby team when both sides play England...
- Curtain-Raiser
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND January 1, 1996 700+ words
Curtain-Raiser, one-act play, usually farcical, which in the 19th century served to whet the appetite of the audience before the main five...
- Curtain raiser of Muslim BIG festival to be held on Dec. 02.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International November 30, 2006 700+ words
KARACHI, November 29 (PPI): The curtain raiser of the Muslims Business and Investment Gala (BIG) Festival 2007 will be held at a local hotel on December 2. The Minister of...
- curtain raiser
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 curtain raiser 1. a short play or skit presented before a longer or more elaborate production 2. any brief preliminary event, entertainment, etc. Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- ADVISORY/Curtain Raiser For Week of Nov. 16.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 13, 1998 700+ words
...Capitol Correspondents News Editors, Assignment Editors From: Stephen Drachler Press Secretary to the Majority Leader Re: Curtain Raiser for week of Nov. 16 Nov. 13, 1998 Voting sessions have been scheduled for Monday, Nov. 16 and Tuesday, Nov. 17...
- ADVISORY/Curtain Raiser for Week of Oct. 5.
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 2, 1998 700+ words
...Capitol Correspondents News Editors, Assignment Editors From: Stephen Drachler Press Secretary to the Majority Leader Re: Curtain Raiser for week of October 5 Oct. 2, 1998 $80 Million School Safety -- Security Funding Proposal, Tougher Parole Standards...
- Dog show curtain raiser cancelled.
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) April 5, 2001 700+ words
...after their street parade was given the go-ahead - but their dog show was called off. The street procession, held as a curtain-raiser to the two-day carnival, faced cancellation through tough new safety guidelines adopted by the police. But Supt Bruce...
- Rocester step into curtain raiser.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Sports Argus (Birmingham, England) August 1, 1998 700+ words
...Rocester will step in as an 11th hour replacement to face Knypersley Victoria in the traditional Interlink Express Alliance curtain raiser next Saturday. The match for the Joe McGorian Cup usually pits the Alliance champions against the League Cup winners...
