'Make It Grand!' (Friday, Saturday and Tuesday) They certainly did make it grand: the "It" is Grand Central Terminal, whose centennial is celebrated in this 30-minute musical, which travels into the heart of the station's history.
'Make It Grand!' (Saturday and Sunday, and Tuesday through Thursday) They certainly did make it grand: the "It" is Grand Central Terminal, whose centennial is celebrated in this 30-minute musical, which travels into the heart of the station's history.
An interactive show by Jonathan Ellers for children 4 and older, "Make It Grand!" features two characters arguing over what is better at Grand Central: the engineering or the ornamentation.
An interactive show by Jonathan Ellers for children 4 and older, "Make It Grand!," which closes on Tuesday, features two characters arguing over what is better at Grand Central: the engineering or the ornamentation.
He is Mr. Penn Station, the new president of the group, the Pennsylvania Station Redevelopment Corporation, promising to expand and make it grand again.
Even coining a slogan for the occasion proved awkward, with the organisers switching from the bullish "Australian Achievement" to the more conciliatory "Living Together" and, eventually, to the entirely inane "Celebration of a Nation", a catchphrase accompanied by a jingle of stupefying banality ("the celebration of a nation/ give us a hand/ celebration of a nation/ let's make it grand!").
The concept and design seem to have followed one of the themes of the Times editorial: Make it grand, and as a testimony to the future about what mattered at the time.
Whenever the group plays a traditional song here, the members personalize it, making it grand or studied-casual; there's almost no gap in commitment and invention between war horses ("Angels From the Realms of Glory," "Good King Wenceslas," "What Child Is This") and their own stuff.
The Enterprise was originally redesigned by Ryan Church using features of the original, at 1200 feet long, but was doubled in size to 2357 feet long to make it seem "grander", while the Romulan Narada is five miles long and several miles wide.
Hawk-Eye is likely work alongside the human eye for line calls during the 2007 tournament and it will make its grand slam debut at next month's US Open.
