It's clear from the opening sequence, in which Weaving in full drag mimes Charlene's I've Never Been to Me, that something strange and magical is in the air.
NEW YORK An article on Monday about Pathways in Technology Early College High School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which weaves high school and college curriculums into a six-year program tailored for jobs in the technology industry, erroneously attributed a distinction to the United States.
After two years of pitching, they landed a contract to design 17 luxury condominiums in the Cumballa Hill neighborhood in Mumbai, which weave together vines, hardwood floors and the Indian architectural philosophy of Vastu Shastra.
Yet at a recent rehearsal Tracie Bennett, the actress portraying Garland, wasn't feeling sufficiently strung out as she sang "Come Rain or Come Shine" with her six-man orchestra in the show, which weaves famous Garland numbers with scenes set in her London hotel suite.
The 2013 movie adaptation of Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall and starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick, renewed interest in the musical, which weaves together classic Grimm Brothers fairytales, before complicating each story and rolling it on.
African influence ran deep in Iron & Wine, which wove guitars and marimba into utterly mesmerizing versions of Sam Beam's enigmatic songs.
What lifted the performance to a special level, however, was the singing of Mark Padmore and Matthias Goerne in the Owen settings, which weave their way through the traditional structure of the Latin mass.
This narrative of right-wing judicial overreach, which weaves in Bush v. Gore and 2010's Citizens United decision as well as the looming health care verdict, has inspired some liberals to a kind of frank despair: "If they decide this by 5-4," the Yale constitutional law professor Akhil Amar told the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, then "my life was a fraud".
The plot, which weaves in a love story and messages about democracy and civic engagement, is told primarily through rap.
This is also the starting place for the Winnipeg Trolley Company tour, which weaves in and out of the neighboring communities, showing how they are all tied to the city center.
But handle it she did, with a necessarily idiosyncratic approach that is stylistically reflected in "The Courage of Strangers," which weaves together numerous themes and jumps between the personal and the global in an often haphazard fashion.
