Monthly archive November, 1997

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1997 The critics called it Capra-corn. It was never intended as a Christmas movie and it wasn't a box-office hit until thirty years after it was produced, when it fell out of copyright protection and hit the public domain. But every Christmas, sure as there isn't snow in San Diego, there are a million showings of "It's a Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1997 Does success mean sellout? Does ambition mean compromise? Do black artists have to dilute and sanitize their work to appeal to white audiences? These and other musical questions form the foundation of “Dreamgirls”, one of the biggest Broadway hits of the 1980s (last here in 1987), now on an 18-city national tour prior Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1997 No top hats and tails for these tappers.   More like hard-hats, tank-tops and workboots.   Ever since their meteoric ascendance in Sydney in 1995, Tap Dogs have been taking the world by storm, and have helped to transform tap-dancing from its traditional staid and elegant grace to a pounding, hard-hitting, rock-beat, blue collar, sexy, sweaty, energetic obsession. Read More →