When “The Wiz” opened in 1975, Broadway was having some fun (and encouraging minority employment) by doing all-black versions of established works (“Guys and Dolls,” “Hello, Dolly!”). “The Wiz” took the 1939 Judy Garland movie and made it into a lightweight script that seemed to want to do nothing but be irreverent. It won the Tony Award for best musical during one of the worst seasons ever. The 1978 overblown film version put an end to Diana Ross’ film career.
Food
Cassandra Black has seen soul food go from sustenance to sensation.
I’ll admit that Goldenberg Peanut Chews were not something that had ever been on my radar before Irene Williams submitted a query for them, but plenty of her fellow readers know all about them.
There’s a clue in the program notes that may explain why Theatre in the Valley’s “Crimes of the Heart” is so successful.
If you’ve ever craved dosa or saag paneer and live in Henderson, you had two options: Drive to the nearest Indian restaurant miles away or suffer through your hunger pangs.
The opening moments of Nevada Conservatory Theatre’s “The Diary of Anne Frank” sum up what’s wrong with this entire show.
Auntie Anne’s, Fashion Show mall, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. South, received 20 demerits Feb. 5. Violations included slime accumulation in ice machine. GRADE: B
Ay Caramba Mexican Restaurant, 2901 W. Washington Ave., received 17 demerits Jan. 30. Violations included broken cold water faucet at hand sink. GRADE: B
People called Michael Dabour “mad” to open his Greek family’s first restaurant in Corona, Calif., practically the middle of nowhere in 1974. That gave him the name.
It’s clear, after multiple seasons of Rainbow Company’s Nevada history series, that the response to these mini-musical skits likely will be affected considerably by how many of the annual shows a viewer has seen.
Sure, you can cut back any day of the week, but the calendar doesn’t always cooperate. Up pops a birthday, an anniversary, a wedding, a birth, and you feel the pressure on an already strained budget.
Bill Sanchez and Dale and Sandra Smutzler asked for reader suggestions for restaurants that serve good meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, and we’ve got ’em in spades.
Watching busloads of high-school students entering the Nicholas Horn Theatre earlier this week to attend a production of the Utah Shakespearean Festival Education Department’s “Twelfth Night,” I was awed once again by the great author’s longevity. The Bard wrote this script around 1601 for a specific London theater company. Yet, here it is 2009 Las Vegas, and he still is being introduced to new generations.