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	Bounce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bounce, a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, which premiered in 2003.
		Bounce, a single by Turkish pop singer Tarkan.
		Bounce or "Bounce music" is also a style of rap music originated in New Orleans
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bounce (228 words)

	Jazz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the root of jazz is the blues, the folk music of former enslaved Africans in the U.S. South and their descendants, heavily influenced by West African cultural and musical traditions, that evolved as fl musicians migrated to the cities.
		The ability of these musically literate, fl jazzmen to transpose and then read what was in great part an improvisational art form became an invaluable element in the preservation and dissemination of musical innovations that took on added importance in the approaching big-band era.
		African musical celebrations held at least as late as the 1830s in New Orleans' "Congo Square" were attended by interested whites as well, and some of their melodies and rhythms found their way into the compositions of white Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jazz (5850 words)

	JS Online: Sondheim throws us a curve with 'Bounce'
		They have wrought a conventional musical comedy with a mildly earthy tone that is easy on the eyes and ears but not particularly memorable.
		The musical style here is Broadway show tunes rather than the arias or dissonance found in much of Sondheim's more recent work, and the songs have hooks that snag in the memory.
		Musical theater veteran Howard McGillin, who is on the short list of Broadway's reliable stock leading men, gives Wilson Mizner the smooth gloss that Sondheim, Weidman and director Harold Prince were apparently seeking.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/jul03/152289.asp?format=print (870 words)

	The GW Hatchet - An Independent Student Newspaper
		"Bounce" is a globetrotting chronicle of Addison and Wilson Mizner's attempts at enterprise beginning in early 20th century California and ending in Boca Raton (and later, heaven, much to the brothers' astonishment).
		The musical director and conductor, David Caddick, tends to muddle the buoyancy of Jonathan Tunick's Copland-esque orchestrations.
		In this respect, "Bounce" is an inspirational, not a cautionary, tale, and it is as feel-good a musical as has ever been; it's just not surface pleasure.
	www.gwhatchet.com /media/paper332/news/2003/11/06/Arts/Broadway.Baby-550064.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.gwhatchet.com (1163 words)

	The Stephen Sondheim Society - News Articles
		Yet thematically and musically rich as Bounce may be, it is hampered by a framing device that feels too pat, even for a musical that is deliberately, and often delightfully, old-fashioned.
		Bounce leaves audiences tapping their feet, humming the tunes and maybe even believing, like the indefatigable Mizners, that opportunity is always just around the corner.
		From Associated Press: ‘The most eagerly awaited new musical not to open in New York this fall is a new Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman collaboration that has found its way to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after a world premiere last June at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
	www.sondheim.org /php/news.php?id=1362 (3485 words)

	Bounce: review on TheaterMania.com
		As portrayed in Bounce, Addison Mizner is a reluctant scoundrel while brother Wilson Mizner is an enthusiastic one; but both are scoundrels, no mistake.
		Bounce does have some good laughs -- many of them nailed by Richard Kind as Addison -- but the book is not jokey and definitely not funny enough to compete against such Broadway laugh machines as The Producers or Hairspray.
		Bounce is neither big nor glitzy by Broadway standards, which is okay; but it needs to be funnier or warmer, or both, in order to be rated higher than second-tier Sondheim.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=3693 (874 words)

	Bounce
		Bounce is directed by Don Roos (previously responsible for The Opposite of Sex) and stars Ben Affleck as businessman Buddy Amaral, who finds himself delayed at an airport while waiting for an overbooked flight to Los Angeles.
		The electronic samples and rhythms used by Danna give his music a much-needed contemporary kick, illustrating the hectic nature of modern life without ever losing touch with the emotional undertones.
		While I admit to being unfamiliar with the majority of Danna's domestic Canadian output, Bounce marks one of the few occasions where he has almost fully embraced convention, and has proved beyond doubt that he is an accomplished practitioner.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /bouncecd.htm (720 words)

	Standing Waves and Musical Instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Musical instruments take advantage of this; musical instruments produce pitches by trapping sound waves.
		So you have a bunch of regularly-spaced waves that are trapped, bouncing back and forth in a container that fits their wavelength perfectly.
		For the purposes of understanding music theory, however, the important thing about standing waves in winds is this: the harmonic series they produce is essentially the same as the harmonics series on a string.
	cnx.org /content/m12413/latest (2224 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Bounce - 11/3/03
		Bounce is replete with clever staging tricks, musical comedy razzle dazzle, and boisterous and good-natured musical storytelling, but never really finds the ideal language for its characters or the audience following their escapades for over two and a half hours.
		But the contributions from Pawk and Creel have not been maximized; Pawk shows up so often in out-of-the-way places she seems little more than a dramatic device, and Creel is stuck in a mostly excrescent role that allows him few real chances to connect with the other characters or the audience.
		Bounce has already overcome a series of difficult obstacles and grown stronger and closer to its eventual goal with each attempt.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/11_02_03.html (860 words)

	Washington Blade Online
		By this time in the musical, though, Sondheim has had enough time to create and expand many variations and leitmotifs, which all come together with an irresistible verve and an unstoppable energy.
		Musical themes and lyric samples are worked and reworked throughout the evening with intricate and astounding results.
		The audience never really cares what happens in the predictable and staid story of âBounce,â but the really sad part is that Sondheim wasted a great score and nine years working on this.
	www.washblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=1514 (678 words)

	Bounce: review on TheaterMania.com
		Bounce suffers from an extreme lack of focus, and though it may be the hoariest cliché in the musical theater sphere to say that the show's book is largely to blame for this, facts are facts.
		The eminently sweet and lovable Powell was a great choice to play the Mizner boys' mom in that she manages to generate sympathy for a largely unsympathetic character, but only God and Stephen Sondheim know why this treasured performer has been embarrassed by being required to sing in a vocal register she no longer possesses.
		Although Bounce has its pleasures, the show is most notable in pointing up the sheer genius of the Sondheim/Prince shows of the 1970s; it prompts us to look back and marvel at how these two titans made the extraordinarily difficult creation of musical theater masterpieces look so damned easy.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4067 (1524 words)

	Playbill News: Bounce Bounces Back: Sondheim-Weidman Musical Faces the Nation's Capital
		Bounce, the new musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, and directed by Harold Prince, will begin the second leg of what may become a journey to Broadway, on Oct. 21 at the Kennedy Center.
		Bounce has been in earnest development for several years under different producers and in different versions and with different titles.
		The Chicago Bounce company of 19 actors, singers and dancers was led by Gavin Creel, Richard Kind, Herndon Lackey, Howard McGillin, Michele Pawk and Jane Powell in the principal roles.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/82264.html (787 words)

	Sondheim.com - Putting it together since 1994.
		Bounce is set in turn of the century America, in the whirlwind rush for gold, a time when the opportunity that embodies the American Dream was at its most limitless.
		Bounce is the story of American men and women grabbing at their chance of fortune, women like Nellie, a Gold rush dance hall girl who marries well - again and again.
		Stephen Banfield's Sondheim's Broadway Musicals reports that Sondheim's plans for a musical about the Mizner brothers was discussed with Oscar Hammerstein as early as 1953 and remained active until after 1956 "when David Merrick, for purposes of comparison, sent Sondheim a script by Sam Behrman of Irving Berlin's unproduced musical."
	www.sondheim.com /news/bway_loses_its_bounce.html (960 words)

	Bounce: Theatre: Joseph Bowen: CenterstageChicago.com
		Bounce, which is on its third title (the previous titles were Wise Guys and Gold) is the story of Addison and Wilson Mizner.
		Typical to Sondheim musicals, Bounce is very complex musically, and does not always have that Rodgers and Hammerstein tuneful appeal.
		Bounce visits the major events in the Mizner brothers' lives, but there are some things missing from the story.
	centerstage.net /theatre/articles/bounce.html (1031 words)

	7/8/04: CD Review Bounce A New Musical By Stephen Sondheim
		Bounce is an unusually lighthearted score for Sondheim, trying much more to be an old-fashioned crowd pleaser than is normal for him, but though the score displays his usual craft it's ultimately a minor work though a highly enjoyable one, especially upon repeated listenings.
		In many ways, Bounce is a big improvement on Passion, but in his apparent attempt to make a lighter and more crowd pleasing show, Sondheim and Weidman have crafted something largely forgettable, a true rarity for the composer.
		Besides the musical awkwardness of the title, Wilson's line "You are the sexiest thing that has happened to me" seems both cheesy and anachronistic, two qualities one would never think to associate with Sondheim's lyrics.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2004/08_Jul---CD_Review_Bounce.asp (2643 words)

	SoundCircuit.com: New Orleans: The 504 Scene
		While both have made bounce songs, their primary style of gangsta rap is nothing like bounce.
		Many argue that bounce is the "essence or hip-hop," or "hip-hop in its truest form." It seems bizarre that the average bounce fan could consider himself in a position to speak on the essence of hip-hop, but we should examine their argument nonetheless.
		A lot of music is danceable, and a lot of genres have percussion similar to hip-hop.
	www.soundcircuit.com /neworleans/504.php (1425 words)

	sjsondheim.com-The Quotable Stephen Sondheim Page-Wiseguys/Gold!/Bounce
		"Bounce," which opened Thursday at the Kennedy Center for a limited run, is set in an exuberant era that began with the Yukon gold rush in the 1890s - in which the brothers began their careers - and ends in the Florida land boom of the Roaring Twenties.
		"Bounce" is based on the lives of the Mizner Brothers, a pair of rakish entrepreneurs from the early 20th century.
		Bounce, the Stephen Sondheim musical that played Chicago and Washington, DC, in 2003, but failed to reach New York, will be given a week-long reading at The Public Theater beginning Jan. 30, a spokesperson for the company told Playbill.com.
	www.sjsondheim.com /gold.html (3182 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Fisher-Price Blue's Clues: Bounce with Me Blue at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She doesn't bounce off the floor at all and she will stop bouncing and playing music after about a minute.
		Bounce with me Blue does not have an on - off button and there is no way to turn her off while she is bouncing and playing her song.
		My 4 1/2 year old has been losing more and more interest in Bounce with me Blue, but I'm sure if he had this when he was younger, he would have enjoyed it as much as he enjoyed the musical hug a Blue.
	www.epinions.com /content_79578173060 (626 words)

	Playbill News: Bounce to Be Recorded by Nonesuch Nov. 10 in Washington, DC
		Bounce to Be Recorded by Nonesuch Nov. 10 in Washington, DC By Robert Simonson
		Whether or not Bounce—the new musical Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman and directed by Harold Prince—travels beyond its current engagement at the Kennedy Center, musical theatre fans around the world will soon be able to hear the score.
		Bounce is inspired by the lives of the colorful, early-20th-century, American capitalists-cum-con artists, the Mizner brothers, their parents, their loves and their endless capers and schemes.
	web.playbill.com /news/article/82473.html (479 words)

	Performance: Bounce Oct 21 - Nov 16, 2003
		Now the Kennedy Center presents Stephen Sondheimâs first new musical in nine years, which immortalizes two of the most notorious and colorful characters from the Roaring Twenties, brothers Addison and Wilson Mizner.
		Bounce follows these two con artists, tireless self-promoters, and shameless bon vivants through an era of limitless adventure and boundless opportunity, from the Alaskan Gold Rush to the land boom in Florida.
		Bounce is presented with the generous support of Perry and Marty Granoff, The HRH Foundation, and Hecht's.
	kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=TETSB (239 words)

	The Actor's Fund Presents Concert Performance of BOUNCE (BroadwayWorld.com)
		The Actors’ Fund of America will present the New York premiere of the new musical BOUNCE, featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman, and direction by Harold Prince, in a concert performance on Sunday, May 9 at 7:30 PM at the Majestic Theatre (249 West 45th Street).
		BOUNCE launches its characters into a turn of the century American whirlwind, a time of limitless adventure and boundless opportunity for those who have the energy and audacity to seize them.
		Bounce follows the adventures of brothers Addison (Richard Kind) and Wilson (Howard McGillin) Mizner, taking to heart the advice of their papa, Lansing Mizner (Herndon Lackey), a man who never missed an opportunity, and Mama Mizner (Jane Powell), who bankrolled their first chance to get rich quick.
	www.broadwayworld.com /read.cfm?prid=27908 (656 words)

	Bounce by Original Cast CD
		The music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim are leagues ahead of the competition in style, melody, intelligence and theatrical verve.
		No new musical ground is covered in a score where the composer almost satirizes himself.
		All in all, "Bounce" is high art bound to satisfy serious musical theatre listeners.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6719856/a/Bounce.htm (444 words)

	Arthur . Parents & Teachers . Musical Moon Bounce \| PBS Kids
		Create: Have each child make a musical instrument by stretching a rubber band over a small container.
		Bounce: Have your children take turns bouncing as you and/or other kids play guitar.
		As children bounce, ask: Where are you bouncing in your moon shoes?
	pbskids.org /arthur/parentsteachers/activities/acts/moon_bounce.html (174 words)

	Liftless 'Bounce'rolls to a stop - The Washington Times: Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		NEW YORK - "Bounce," the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical, won't land on Broadway, at least not under the banner of producer Roger Berlind, who had been expected to bring the show to New York.
		AP called "Bounce" a "lifeless and joy-free look at the Mizner brothers, two early 20th-century entrepreneurs who, among other things, prospected for gold in the Yukon and helped to build Boca Raton during the Florida land boom of the 1920s."
		The musical was recorded last week by Nonesuch, which plans to release a CD of the score next year.
	www.washtimes.com /entertainment/20031119-092718-9173r.htm (422 words)

	The Rugged Elegance World Marketplace \| Music : Bounce (2003 Original Cast)
		Bounce is a pretty accurate title for this Sondheim show, which receives a cast album after having been seemingly everywhere but Broadway.
		In a way this is fitting for a musical that's been on Sondheim's mind since 1952, when he first read about the adventures of the two Mizner brothers in The New Yorker.
		Bounce may not work as a show, but a few of its songs are bound to show up in a cabaret near you sooner rather than later.
	www.ruggedelegantliving.com /cgi-bin/amazon/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00011FWWY (726 words)

	REVIEW: BOUNCE (BroadwayWorld.com)
		Richard Kind's musical debut is nothing short of brilliant, playing the loving but perpetually abused Addison Mizner with a gentle innocence that never crosses the line into naïveté.
		Adding to the theme of an old-fashioned musical comedy are Eugene Lee's sets, mostly comprised of backdrops, and Howell Binkley's follow-spots and footlights.
		Harold Prince has stopped trying to force a musical comedy into a vaudeville frame, and his direction now keeps the show moving at a good pace despite the book.
	www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=135 (1210 words)

	Hartford Advocate: The Big Bounce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the signature bounce tracks is Slim's "Monkey on tha Dick." Message boards on the web are still filled with recent tributes (up to this week) from fans who compare Slim to other rappers, like Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur, whose careers were cut short by gun violence.
		The story is sidetracked briefly by an aside about Cohn's friendship with thug boxer Willie Pastrano, whose tale seems to fall under the "death in New Orleans" part of the book.
		Hip-hop is a genre often associated with meteoric rises to supercelebrity, with ostentatious wealth and seemingly effortless success.
	hartfordadvocate.com /gbase/Lifestyle/content?oid=oid:139582 (663 words)

	Bounce - TheBestLinks.com - Brand, Stephen Sondheim, Album, Bounce (album), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bounce, Brand, Stephen Sondheim, Album, Bounce (album), Check, Bounce (musical)...
		Bounce, a musical written by Stephen Sondheim, which premiered in 2003.
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Bounce.html (193 words)

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