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Year 33, No. 28
Celebrating 33 Years of Community News
Dream of True Love with Andrew How the Urban Jungle Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me On A Sunday Drives Evolution alnut Street Theatre’s 2017 -18 Independence Studio on 3 Season concludes with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s romantic musical Tell Me On A Sunday. Directed by Debi Marcucci and starring The Phantom of the Opera’s Julia Udine, the produc-
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Julia Udine in “Tell Me On A Sunday” at the Walnut Street Theatre. Photo/courtesy of the Walnut Street Theatre tion begins with previews on April 10, opens on April 12, and continues through June 10 in the Walnut’s Independence Studio on 3. The dream of true love can take us anywhere! It’s the 1980s and a young English girl, full of energy and optimism, arrives in New York ready to find success and love. On her journey, she wakes up to frustration, anxiety and heartache, and begins to wonder whether she’s looking for love in all the wrong places. This iconic musical, with a wonderfully original score, features some of Andrew Lloyd Webber (School of Rock, The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Cats) and Don Black’s most romantic songs including “Come Back with the Same Look in Your Eyes” and “Nothing Like You’ve Ever Known.” Evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen discusses Andrew Lloyd Webber began working on Tell Me On A Sunday shortly after the success “Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives of the smash musical Evita. He began collaborating with Don Black, who had just started Evolution” April 11, 2018 at the free Academy Town writing for musicals after a successful Hollywood career (including an Academy Award for Square presented with WHYY The Pulse. the song “Born Free”). Webber and Black finished the show in 1979 and presented it at the Sydmonton Festival with Marti Webb, who was playing Eva Perón in Evita. After a successizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip ful stint at the festival, the show was recorded as an album, reaching critical success, includconcrete surfaces. In New York City parks, white-footed ing a top single, “Take That Look Off Your Face.” mice carry genes for heavy metal tolerance. Europe’s In 1982, Tell Me On A Sunday became the first act of a new production called Song & Dance. The song cycle was combined with a one-act ballet to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Variations. urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins The show opened in the West End, once again starring Marti Webb. In 1985 the production to be heard over the din of traffic. What’s going on here? Evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen opened on Broadway, starring Bernadette Peters as “Girl.” The show received rave reviews
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Mural Artist Gives Colorful Gift to Neumann University Francis of Philadelphia); and lloyius McIlwaine has students fill the air section in painted murals in Paris, front of blue skies and bright, Madrid, Casablanca, white clouds. Miami and New Orleans. He can now add Neumann UniverA 2004 Neumann University sity to his list. grad, with murals all over the A 2004 graduate of Neumann, world, Alloyius McIlwaine McIlwaine shared his talent has just completed an with his alma mater on March enormous mural, “Canticle of 12-14 by creating an enormous the Creatures,” at Neumann. four-part mural in the hallway The mural includes segments of the John J. Mullen Commuthat represent the four nication Center, a high-tech elements: earth, air, fire studio complex that opened and water. in the fall of 2016. The mural, entitled Canticle of the CreaMcIlwaine painted for more tures, includes segments that than eight hours each day in represent the four elements: order to finish on Neumann’s earth, air, fire and water. Charter Day, the annual celeOne large figure dominates bration of the signing of the each section. The sun is promiuniversity charter in 1965. nent in the fire segment, fillStudents walking to and from ed with bright yellows; a knight class described the mural as is central to a blue-themed “beautiful,” “unique,” “amazwater portion (Neumann’s sports teams are the Knights); St. Francis is the focus of the earth segment, ing” and “awesome.” awash in browns and golds (the university was founded by the Sisters of St. See Alloyius McIlwaine’s New Mural at Neumann University page 7
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