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Title: Bebe Neuwirth.(QUICK Q&A)(interview)(Interview)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 81Issue: 1Page: 20(1)

Article Type: Interview

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Dance Magazine, Inc. on March 1, 2010. The length of the article is 816 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The lady in black: a slinky Bebe Neuwirth brings Morticia Addams to life.(on broadway)
Author: Sylviane Gold
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2010
Publisher: Dance Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 84Issue: 3Page: 62(2)

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"The joy for me is knowing that somebody can have this strange audio experience. They're getting something as good as you get from radio." - Neil Gaimen

Produced by the Sci-Fi Channel and Seeing Ear Theatre - these two plays are adapted for voice by Neil Gaiman from two of his short stories (both stories can be found in Smoke & Mirrors).

SNOW GLASS APPLES: Once upon a time there lived a young princess with skin as white as snow, with hair as black as coal, with lips redder than blood. Most people think they know what happens to this young unfortunate girl. Most people are wrong. Tony-award winning actress Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago, Sweet Charity, and TV's Cheers) stars as a wise Queen who wants nothing more than to reign over her kingdom peacefully but is forced to match wits with an inhuman child who has an unnatural taste for blood.

Full Cast List:
Bebe Neuwirth as the Queen ; Martin Carey as the Huntsman; Mark Evans as the Prince; Merwin Goldsmith as the Lord of the Fair; J.R. Horne as the Archbishop & Friar; Alissa Hunnicutt as the Maidservant; Randy Maggiore as a Soldier; Kate Simses as the Princess; Nick Wyman as the King

MURDER MYSTERIES: In this mystery noir set in heaven's City of Angels before the fall, the first crime has been committed. It is an awful one. While the angelic hosts labor to create the world and its workings, one of their number is mysteriously slain by one of their own. Raguel, Angel of Vengeance, is mandated by Lucifer to discover both motive and murderer in this holy dominion that had so recently known no sin.

Full Cast List:
Brian Dennehy as Raguel ; Anne Bobby as Tink's Friend ; Christopher Burns as Saraquael ; Thom Christopher as Lucifer ; Ed Dennehy as Zephkiel ; Michael Emerson as Narrator ; Traci Godfrey as Tinkerbell Richmond ; Evan Pappas as Phanuel

Customer Reviews (8)

Amazing!Mr. Gaiman - please do more of these audio plays!
I have listened to these over and over and get more out of them each time.Neil Gaiman is a brilliant writer and the actors in these audio plays are incredible.This is art of the highest order.

Two tellings of disturbing (and enjoyable) tales...
Two very disturbing stories from Neil Gaiman, this was a duet of short plays adapted for "Seeing Ear Theatre" and read by Bebe Neuwirth ("Snow Glass Apples") and Brian Dennehy ("Murder Mystery.")

"Snow Glass Apples" was a re-telling of Snow White with a ghastly vampiric twist, and from the voice of the Queen, who is anything but the Disnified villainess we've come to know and loathe. Snow White is herself a disturbing figure, and all in all, this was a very enjoyable re-telling of a classic, if a tad gruesome in its telling and conclusion.

"Murder Mystery" I found quite wonderful - it is a tale that includes the investigation of the first murder ever - an angel has been killed, and another angel is called to investigate. The B-plot story, however, just plain didn't make sense.

If I had to break them into two parts, "Snow Glass Apples" would get a '5' and "Murder Mystery" would get a '3.' Hence the '4.'

'Nathan

Seeing Ear Theatre
Two Plays For Voices is part of the Seeing Ear Theatre Productions from the Sci-Fi Channel.More television stations should follow their lead.These two stories told in the form of radio plays are terrific!I am a big fan of Neil Gaiman and this format brings two incredible stories to life.

Murder Mysteries is expertly presented and the twist at the end is a surprise to say the least.

Snow Glass Apples is a shivery fairy tale which cuts to the core of good vs. evil and that some things aren't always what they seem.

Gaiman got game
I'm a fan...Neil's worst works still qualify as excellent in my mind, and these are some of his best.I read these stories when they were published 10 years ago in a small distribution book called Angels and Visitations.Then I saw them reprinted again in another book some years later.

The two plays in this package provided my wife and I the best entertainment we were going to get while being stuck in 8 hours of traffic.Finally I got my wife to pay attention to Neil's stuff (she refused to read Sandman)and she dug it.

If you like books on tape, this is better.If you like reading Neil's work, you'll like it even better this way.

Neil, if you're reading this...can we have some more of these?

Gaiman got game
I'm a fan...Neil's worst works still qualify as excellent in my mind, and these are some of his best.I read these stories when they were published 10 years ago in a small distribution book called Angels and Visitations.Then I saw them reprinted again in another book some years later.

The two plays in this package provided my wife and I the best entertainment we were going to get while being stuck in 8 hours of traffic.Finally I got my wife to pay attention to Neil's stuff (she refused to read Sandman)and she dug it.

If you like books on tape, this is better.If you like reading Neil's work, you'll like it even better this way.

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This best selling novel - a delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage and murder - is wickedly funny as it is deeply insightful. ... Read more

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Imagine the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady sporting a stylish haircut, miniskirt, and sunglasses, and you have Isabel Walker, the heroine of this incandescent novel.

Le Divorce follows this smart, sexy American abroad as she arrives in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, whose marriage into an aristocratic French family has assured her of a coveted place in Parisian society. But Roxy's husband has just left her for the Czechoslovakian wife of an American lawyer. Could 'le divorce' be far behind?

This bestselling novel -- a delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder -- is as wickedly funny as it is deeply insightful. At the center of it all is the irrepressible Isabel -- captivated by Paris and a handsome, worldly French diplomat -- and trying to keep her perspective as cultures and human passions collide.

Customer Reviews (122)

Le Suck
Everything about this book annoyed me & I found nothing funny.Don't waste your time.

As good as the movie - can't wait to share the book with others
I rarely want to watch a movie twice, and I've probably seen this movie 3 times. There is really so much going on, at so many levels, all deftly balanced.I bought the book just to enjoy the story one more time, and perhaps get some more "back-story" details.I thoroughly enjoyed the book in its own right.From the cover art, I expected a shallower "chic lit" (not that I can't enjoy that...). Instead, I got the added details of family intrigue, cultural referants, and a few good lessons in living French language.I heartily recommend it, and will happily pass it on to literate friends.

not as trivial as it sounds
You'd think that a book made into a Kate Hudson movie would be somewhat frivolous. However, Diane Johnson's Le Divorce was actually a National Book Award Finalist, and I can understand why. The wry commentary on the differences between French and American culture make this book worth reading and keep it from settling into overwrought melodrama. The author comes down hard on the French for their nonchalance toward marital infidelity and their treatment of women as somewhat less than equal to their male counterparts. An American woman in Paris gets even less of a fair shake. Roxy is a Californian married to a Frenchman and is pregnant with her second child. When her husband leaves her, Roxy's younger sister Isabel comes to help out. However, Isabel's story soon overshadows Roxy's as she becomes involved with Roxy's uncle-in-law, Edgar, a married statesman in his seventies. Isabel knows that the affair will end badly but broadens her horizons while trying to keep up with Edgar's televised observations on world events. Isabel's odd jobs provide further intrigue--organizing papers for an eminent American writer, babysitting for former CIA agents, walking a Frenchman's dog--and a panorama of characters. When a possibly valuable painting becomes a point of dispute in the property settlement for Roxy's divorce, both families exemplify how greed trumps courtesy.

A Comedy of Errors Leads to Tragedy
This novel is a take-off on an old-fashioned cross-cultural comedy of manners of
Americans in Paris.Isabel, a spoiled California girl, goes to France to visit her preg-
nant sister, Roxie.Meanwhile, Roxie's husband has left her to go and live with his
mistress.

The low expressed emotions of the French is countered with the puzzled and 'bar-
baric' gaffs of the Americans.A comedy of errors, and ultimately tragedy, ensues.

Johnson is a wonderful writer and evoker of moods.For this reason I rated the
book a '4'. However, the characters in this book lack depth and substance.They
seem to represent and stand for things, rather than existing in their own right.

So misleading...
This novel was such a huge huge disappointment to me - it will be the last time I rely on the back cover of a book to give me any indication as to its contents - sexy, cool, irrepressible Isabel?? She was one of the the most boring, most self-obsessed characters I have come across in fiction. I think there was one scene (where she tells Antoine it is so tacky for the De Persand's to try to take Roxy's picture) when she had any kind of spunk to her. The rest of the time ("he told me Americans smiled too much. So I tried to smile less") she was this whining wet rag, who seriously needed to get some friends and a life.

If Roxy and Isabel are the sort of characters exported from California to Paris then no wonder the French hold the US in such low opinion. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2486 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dance Magazine Awards 2007.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 81Issue: 11Page: 42(5)

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This issue features Hilary Swank The War on Terrorism, Steven Soderbergh, War Stories, Wat it Feels like: first-person reports from the extremes of human experience - what it's like to pitch a perfect game, be bitten by a shark, undergo an exorcism, join an orgy, win an Oscar, be truly, deeply, wildly obsessive-compulsive, and much more! ... Read more