Christie moved to centre stage for Darling (1965), a corrosive portrait of an amoral woman who changes professions (model, actress, countess) as often as she changes lovers.
Drugs dogs lined the entrance, the friskings were particularly handsy, and the Pink Stage featured the darling implementation of a watchtower from which policemen kept an eye out for plumes of smoke arising from the crowd.
Stage two was Alistair Darling's double whammy of a City bonus tax and an increase in the marginal rate of income tax to 50%.
Some would have known him from his glory days as a fashion darling who staged hot-ticket runway shows and made pronouncements to the news media.
Over his four-decade career -- roughly the same amount of time that Mr. Brown, 71, has been in politics -- Mr. Darling has staged a variety of stunts in the name of art, including "nailing down" cities to prevent them from flying into the cosmos and using giant needles to puncture the Central Valley in an effort to solve a drought.
At 6 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (800) 745-3000, websterhall.com/events; $15. (Anderson) Other Lives (Friday) The Oklahoma-bred orchestral rockers are proving the sure-thing opening ammunition for this year's high-profile tours; they just warmed the stage for the Grammy darlings Bon Iver and will join Radiohead on the road in two weeks.
The David Wax Museum, whom I profiled last year, has been one of the most pleasant stories in music today -- a band that went from grass roots outfit to Newport Folk main stage players and Americana darlings off the strength of two self-released albums within 12 months plus a tireless touring schedule in which they took their win-you-over stage show throughout North America and abroad.
Darling opted to stage the fuel duty increase this year with one penny applied in April, one in October and one in January.
At 5 30 p.m., Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, at 74th Street, (212) 465-6500, beacontheatre.com; $35 to $55. (Anderson) ★ Other Lives (Thursday) These Oklahoma-bred orchestral rockers are proving the sure-thing opening ammunition for high-profile tours: they warmed the stage for the sudden Grammy darlings Bon Iver and have also supported Radiohead on the road.
Stage left, Condoleezza Rice, the former Republican darling, a classically trained pianist and academic perhaps better known as George Bush's enforcer.
