Stratford Festival plans to remount ‘Something Rotten' and stage new revival of ‘Guys & Dolls' next year
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13 hours ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
Major League Baseball is spotlighting player fashion on the All-Star Game red carpet
When Yoshinobu Yamamoto makes his All-Star Game red carpet debut Tuesday, stylist Whitney Etoroma expects the Dodgers' pitcher to shine just as much as he does on the mound. 'I think it will be a moment,' she told The Associated Press. The pair are making a final decision on what he'll wear, but Etoroma is pushing for a Thom Browne runway look that will 'push the envelope.' As part of a program created in 2019, MLB provided stylists for the red carpet to Yamamoto, Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh, Detroit pitcher Tarik Skubal and Cubs' outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong as baseball aims to raise its fashion profile and highlight the style of some of its biggest stars. Yamamoto won't pitch in the All-Star Game after throwing seven scoreless innings for the Dodgers on Sunday but will participate in the festivities leading up to it. He's in his second season in the majors after signing a 12-year, $325 million contract following a seven-year career with the Orix Buffaloes in Japan. Etoroma, who has styled scores of professional athletes, said designers have been particularly interested in Yamamoto, which she believes is because of his cool look and international appeal. 'I'm excited because fashion actually really cares about Yoshi, which is kind of a rarity,' she said. 'I will say with other players in the past, they haven't been as excited, but with Yoshi, it's something special, something different.' Though she has 15 different looks for Yamamoto to choose from, she's hoping to steer him to the Thom Browne look because of the exclusivity of the brand. 'I've been like look, this is gonna be incredible,' she said she told him. 'If you do Thom Browne, game over, that's actually a huge level up in fashion. They don't say yes to anybody. It has to be a very specific person and so hopefully we do that. But I'm not gonna push too much (and) if not I'm happy to go with the classic look.' Whatever suit he chooses, it will be accessorized with David Yurman jewelry. Wearing a visionary designer like Thom Browne might be a bit much for Yamamoto, who calls Nike his favorite designer. 'Being honest, I'm not that into fashion, but I appreciate (being called stylish),' he said in Japanese through a translator Monday. He did say that he's looking forward to the red carpet, but wouldn't give any hints as to what he's leaning toward wearing for the event. 'That's a secret, I'm not telling,' he said. Melanie Boppel, who recently styled Jalen Hurts and his wife Bryonna for the Met Gala, is dressing both Raleigh and Skubal for this year's red carpet. Skubal, a two-time All-Star who is starting for the American League on Tuesday night, has been working with Boppel to curate a look that will make him feel confident on the red carpet. 'What's going to be really important are accessories,' she said. 'He really wants to tie in Detroit, since that's the team he plays for and he also wants to tie in the city of Atlanta since the All-Star game will be taking place in Atlanta. So, I hope to bring out those two ideas he has through accessories. We'll see how that pans out. It might be through his wardrobe as well.' Boppel hopes the momentum gained from Tuesday's red carpet style will trickle down to create more interest among fans in what they're wearing all season like there is for basketball and football. 'The day of the red carpet, there is a lot of focus on the athletes, but it's just the longevity of style being at the forefront of the players throughout the rest of the season that's the hard part,' she said. 'There's so many games, they're traveling so it's just hard to continue that. But they do get a lot of recognition for the red carpet and All-Star and that whole weekend and I hope at some point it does continue to stick and there is consistency there.' Raleigh, who leads the majors with a career-high 38 home runs, describes his style as 'very bland,' and added: 'I'm not the style guy.' But he is looking forward to sprucing up Tuesday night. 'I like looking good,' he said at All-Star media day. 'I think everybody does, right? You want to look good. Especially on the red carpet. I like looking professional and putting together a good fit.' The catcher said working with a stylist for the event has been great for him. Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. 'I don't love shopping too much, so it's nice having somebody that can just throw something on, and I just can pick it and it's easy,' he said. And for someone who earned the nickname 'Big Dumper' for his generous backside, there's one must-have for him when it comes to clothes. 'As long as it stretches, I like it,' he said. ___ AP MLB:
Toronto Star
07-07-2025
- Toronto Star
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CBC
07-07-2025
- CBC
10 years on, has the musical Hamilton aged well?
Social Sharing Ten years ago, Hamilton premiered on Broadway and altered the course of musical theatre history forever. The revolutionary hit show about the founding of America as a nation has been wildly successful, making stars out of many in its original cast. But the world looks quite different from how it did 10 years ago, and hindsight has now cast the show in a new light. Today on Commotion, professor James McMaster as well as culture critics Jackson Weaver and Karen Fricker join guest host Rad Simonpillai to unpack what Hamilton: An American Musical 's legacy is looking like today. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player. WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube: Rad: James, despite how things may have seemed back [in 2015], the show didn't actually win over everybody. You were one of the first people to publicly question how this musical reimagined American history. Can you walk us through where you thought it fell short? James: I'll give two things as offerings in response to this question, with the caveat that I love the musical. I sing Satisfied alone in my apartment all the time. But the history of the United States cannot be told without acknowledging its original sins, right? And those sins, to keep it real, are the genocide of Indigenous people so that the country could be on the land, and the enslavement of Black Africans, right? There are moments in Hamilton where those realities are gestured toward, and I would say very generously gestured toward. But does the musical offer a real reckoning with those realities? No, and this is especially problematic for many of the show's critics because by casting Black and brown people in the roles of the founding fathers, some of whom were slaveholders, the musical allows the audience to sort of distance themselves from the recognition of really who the country was built for [and] the values on which the country was built in the first place…. WATCH | Official clip of Satisfied from Hamilton: The second thing I think the musical perpetuates [is] a kind of fantasy of meritocracy that has for a long time in the United States not been a reality, right? So Hamilton is framed as "another immigrant coming up from the bottom," "young, scrappy, and hungry," "not throwing away his shot." But the reality for immigrants in the United States, even at the time of the Obama administration, was not that you could be exceptionally talented, exceptionally intelligent, exceptionally hardworking and become a hero of American history. It happens, but it is exceptional. And so there's this bootstraps meritocracy that the show perpetuates, particularly with respect to immigration, that I think was overstating the case. Rad: I want to pick up on the erasure of the violence that you're speaking of here…. Jackson, these are the kinds of glossed-over historical details that people took issue with. What are you making of those criticisms? Jackson: First off, I think what James was saying was absolutely right. I love this musical. I will replay The Room Where It Happens over and over in my apartment. And I think if this musical wasn't as hugely successful, as seminal to the lens we look at this decade as it became, then we wouldn't necessarily need to critique it as closely as we do. But because it did, it opens up this whole conversation — an accidental conversation, because when Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote this musical, he was trying to write a musical about Hamilton, a forgotten founding father, a story about ambition that echoes his own rapid-fire brain and his own fear of mortality. And then casting Black and non-white people in these roles, as it says in the book about the musical, was kind of an accidental thing that came about because these are the people that could best rap…. Now it becomes this huge conversation [about] the American story, and it becomes a very shallow one because it reveals how little it actually says about the only true American art form, which is Black musicality. And this revisionist history isn't something like Inglourious Basterds where it gives a Jewish person a different version of history to kill a Nazi. This is Washington rapping hip-hop through a mouth of slave teeth…. WATCH | Official clip of The Room Where It Happens: This is not about what it means to be Black in America. This is not that sort of story about history, about being, even, an immigrant, because Hamilton came over to America by the labour of enslaved people. He was trading sugarcane and all the things he can't afford that were being taken out of the ground by slaves, by people that he then came off the back of and came to America. So this kind of hagiography, or this homage to hip-hop is something because Lin-Manuel Miranda — again, and not Black person himself — loves hip-hop, and he wanted to give all these accolades to hip-hop, and he did such a good job of it. But if you really want to say a story about America and how it looks from the perspective of a Black person, have Frederick Douglass and his speech saying, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" Have the Haitian revolution and set it in America to show how dehumanized these people actually are, and how impossible it is to rise above when the entire world is allied against you. Hamilton is using this Obama-era hopefulness, which made a lot of sense when it was written and when it was very first performed. But now when you get the line, "Immigrants: we get the job done," and people clap — it sounds different when there is a secret police force going through Los Angeles and arresting people. The way that Hamilton looks at the world only works if you are very hopeful about a specific way that the world can be, that is not necessarily the way that the world looks anymore.
