Other popular musicals such as Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, Cabaret, Kiss Me, Kate, Miss Saigon, Brigadoon, The Music Man, 110 in the Shade, Man of La Mancha, and Follies have been staged by opera companies on both sides of the Atlantic.
"I just want to keep my shades on, man," he said.
Some players wore neon spandex, others donned plastic shades, one man enveloped himself in a red boxing robe that concealed white short-shorts.
From behind his shades, the man himself contentedly flips two thumbs up in laidback acknowledgment and, from him, it feels like two delirious blasts of an air horn.
Before living here, for instance, I'd imagined that the jazz scene was a closed, exclusive world of too cool cats in wraparound shades, dissolute men and women contemptuous of the daytime world and aloof in artistic arrogance.
While Shade (the man) tried to save the world from madness, this new Shade has plunked her spirit down in the body of a comatose high school "mean girl" and spends this first issue holding onto reality as best she can.
This year the owners started their own line -- rhinestone-studded ones called "Cruella II" for women, and rims in pale shades for men.
He's a designer who knows how to treat his customers, and he knows which sort of vivid shades his men will buy.
Mr. Pincus, for instance, declined to give out any figures on sales of its four shades of men's hair color -- and many other products are not even out yet.
We now predict that in the spring of 1943 the wartime shades for men's hats will be Salute Blue, "swagger military tone; "Commando tan," a smart neutral version; "Victory Brown," a medium shade of lively undertone," and Gungrey, "in the taupe range".
