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curtain call The Scottsboro Boys Is the most ambitious new musical of the Broadway season racist? By Jason Zinoman Posted Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, at 4:11 PM ET Is the most ambitious new musical of the Broadway season racist? You could get that impression from reading the press coverage of The Scottsboro Boys, a wildly entertaining coda to the rich collaboration between composer John Kander and the late lyricist Fred Ebb, the duo that produced sly crowd-pleasers like Chicago and Cabaret. The provocative new show employs blackface and minstrel-show tropes to tell the tragic story of the 1930s rape trial of nine innocent African-Americans, and many critics have worried over the tension between the show's toe-tapping style and its grave subject. The Freedom Party, an activist group, was more explicit, calling the musical racist in a press release and protesting the Lyceum Theater, creating a minor media circus. Ticket-buyers have also struggled with the dramatization of pernicious stereotypes of black men, judging by the muffled, anxious laughter on both nights I attended. To continue reading, click here. Jason Zinoman writes about theater for the New York Times. His book Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror will be published in July. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Obama Is Expected To Respond to Every Emergency, Instantly. Maybe He Shouldn't. What Happened to All That Republican In-Fighting the Tea Party Was Supposed To Cause? I Took a Vacation to Iraq. I Don't Recommend It.	Advertisement
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LCMA's public program to feature Japanese modern art, Dec 5

Cultural News Email Daily   Cultural News Email Daily is edited by Shige Higashi of Cultural News in Los Angeles, California. The goal of Cultural News is to tie together with enthusiasts of Japanese culture in Southern California. The indexing at www.culturalnews.com is most comprehensive source of Japanese culture in the region. This is a membership site. Join Cultural News Club! Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Public program to feature Japanese modern art, Dec 5   23rd Annual Michele Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art Japanese Modern Art in the World: Global Modernism from a Local Perspective Sunday, December 5, 3:30 pm Yorozu Tetsugorô, In Bathing Costume (Mizugi sugata), 1926, oil on canvas, Iwate Museum of Art Early twentieth-century Japanese painting is among the most compelling produced anywhere, yet the attention it deserves is long overdue. This lecture will introduce key monuments of Japanese modern art and place them in both domestic and international contexts. Alicia Volk, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Maryland, will focus on oil painter Yorozu Tetsugorô, who devoted his career to the defining challenge of Japanese modern art: resolving the sometimes uneasy relationships between native and foreign, and past and present. Brown Auditorium. Free, reservations required. Call 323 857-6565 to reserve a seat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art is located at 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. www.lacma.org

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The Greatest Gift of All; The Birth of Jesus Christ -- November 30, 2010

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