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Indianapolis Colts President Bill Polian has a simple explanation for why the team lost the Super Bowl. But he has no idea
why there was no parade celebrating the team’s season in its hometown.
Kmart’s announcement that it will close its store in Connersville in May will put 59 employees out of work. Fayette County,
where the city is located, already is strapped by steep job losses.
Researchers at Indiana University used edited TV episodes of “24,” “Oz” and others in study.
Indianapolis leaders are officially seeking proposals from companies interested in running the city’s parking operations—and
possibly additional spaces managed by other government entities.
Sen. Patricia Miller will put on hold a bill that would have have stripped the Indianapolis Historic Preservation
Commission
of much of its authority. The bill was
prompted by incidents including a dispute over St. John United Church of Christ.
The Indianapolis-based health insurer says a shift in demographics and rising medical costs have led to its planned 39 percent
rate hike for some California customers.
Facing intense scrutiny from the federal government, Toyota is trying a salt-of-the-earth offensive, paying for a group of
its U.S. employees to talk with lawmakers. At least one is from Toyota’s plant in Princeton, Ind.
The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, a hopeful sign the job market may
be improving.
Multimedia products maker World Media Group Inc. will invest more than $2 million to expand its manufacturing operations on
the east side of Indianapolis, increasing its workforce by 20 percent.
Instead of focusing on standardized tests, the Indiana Growth Model will monitor individual students’ academic growth to measure
their progress and identify effective teaching methods, state public education officials say.
The 1,000-room J.W. Marriott isn’t even finished and support already is emerging for a second downtown hotel that
would rival it in size.
Once considered a destination only eight months of the year, Indianapolis—with its compact downtown and indoor walkways—is
emerging as a convention powerhouse even during cold weather.
A side-by-side look at infrastructure and visitor numbers.
The law firm Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP has spent more than $1 million to add the 1871 Eden-Talbott house to its
campus in the Old Northside Historic District.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and three other governors of states with Toyota plants are calling on Congress to be fair to the
automaker in hearings concerning safety recalls.
On Feb. 26 at the IMA’s Tobias Theatre, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra will provide live musical accompaniment to a screening of daredevil comic Harold Lloyd’s classic film “Safety Last,” along with the Buster Keaton short “One Week.” The event is a follow-up to last year’s wildly successful screening/performance of "The General." This time, I’ll be […]
Cirque du Soleil presents “Alegria,” Feb. 11-14 at Conseco Fieldhouse. Details here.
Indiana Repertory Theatre
presents Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Feb. 16-March 9. Details here.
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre presents
“Under the Big Top,” Feb. 12-28 at the Academy of Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre in Carmel.
Reservations required. Details here.
Butler Ballet presents its “Midwinter Dance
Festival,” Feb. 12-13 at Clowes Hall. Details here.
Theatre on the Square presents a double
bill of hits from past Indy Fringe festivals, "Mr. Charles Currently of Palm Beach" and "A..holes
and Aureoles," Feb. 12-27. Details here.
Feb. 12-13
The Athenaeum
The latest creation from the Indiana Ballet Company weaves together
choreography by Alyona Yakovleva, Shakespeare sonnets read by Butler University visiting theater teacher—and member
of the Royal Academy for the Dramatic Arts—Tim Hardy, and period music by The Dragonscale Consort. We’re not sure
if this will bring us closer to figuring out who Shakespeare’s “dark lady” was, but it should make for a
lovely evening of dance theater. Details
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Feb. 12-14
Indianapolis Civic Theatre
Classics, in hindsight, always seem like the result of
destiny. But their back stories are often less confident. In the case of “My Fair Lady,” for instance, success
was far from guaranteed. George Bernard Shaw didn’t want his play, “Pygmalion,” to be musicalized at all.
His death, however, opened the door to that possibility. Still, Rodgers and Hammerstein couldn’t make it work and, on
first effort, Lerner and Loewe couldn’t, either—how could a musical exist with all this dialogue and without a
secondary romantic couple? In fact, it was only after Lerner and Loewe took a two-year hiatus from the project that they figured
out how to make “My Fair Lady” into theatrical magic—and, even then, star Rex Harrison almost didn’t
come out of his dressing room before opening night.
Now gilded as one of the great works of musical theater, “My
Fair Lady” is being given a new look by Indianapolis Civic Theatre, which is offering it as part of its Broadway Concert
Series. That means the orchestra is on stage, the actors may be carrying scripts, and set and costumes are minimal. Forget
theatrical conventions and, instead, go and soak up the sound of one of Broadway’s best. Details here.
