NUCULAR: Please try to look up this word. Like alot, it doesn't exist. Please note the spelling: NUCLEAR. The last five letters spell CLEAR, and the pronunciation isn't far from "new-clear."
Many patients entering the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired say nucular. They don't realize that doing this makes questionable anything they have to say on the subject. After all, if they never bothered to learn to pronounce even their topic, how careless might they be with their facts about it?
For years, we've been trying to get a certain politician to seek treatment, but he has stated publicly that he hasn't made mistakes and regrets none of his decisions. One who is always right misunderestimates his need for treatment and is virtually incurable.
Too bad. After treatments, our patients think more about what they say and often stop saying realitor and athalete on their own.
From Thursday July 17th through Saturday, July 19th and again from Thursday, July 24th through Saturday July 26th, families will travel back in time to the silent film era complete with slapstick comedy, daredevil stunts, and live music on Hangar Theatre stage.
The Hangar’s KIDDSTUFF season continues with Barry Kornhauser’s hilarious production of Reeling, showing all six days at 10 am and Noon. Families will laugh along as the Keystone cop-type hero faces a lion’s share of predicaments. Reeling is made possible at the Hangar Theatre with the support of Warren Real Estate and Purity Ice Cream. The KIDDSTUFF season is made possible by season sponsors Wegmans, Ithacamoms.com, and Ithaca Child Newspapers.
The Hangar Theatre continues its 2008 Mainstage Season with the beloved American musical Oklahoma!, from July 10 through 26. Oklahoma! was the first of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s many musical masterpieces (South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music) and played a pivotal role in defining musical theatre. Since opening on Broadway in 1943 with a record-setting run of more than 2,000 performances, Oklahoma! has won a Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, an honorary Grammy, and an Academy Award for the 1955 film adaptation.
Broadway choreographer/director Dan Knechtges will set the stage ablaze as he brings fresh energy to this time-honored classic. Interim Artistic Director Robert Moss promises to “bring imaginative new insights…that will make it seem as if you have never seen Oklahoma! before.” Moss said that the production will be not only joyous but also “meaty and thoughtful.”