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chicago dance review: hubbard street dance chicago (season 41 winter series at the harris) premieres, especially crafted by in-house choreographers for the skills and needs of their company colleagues, display a tales-within-tales meld of individuality within synchronicity, a de*pening of dance that’s more than conceptual. hubbard street dance 21 is a good bet what happens when you put together a team of young, money-driven fanatics? yes, something exceptional. 21 features a team of six talented students of mit, led by their aberrant math professor, who master the art of card counting, code talks, and body gestures to. cd review: head over heels (original broadway cast recording on masterworks broadway) improbable musical mash-up of sir philip sidney’s sixte*nth-century work the countess of pembroke’s arcadia (libretto by james magruder, adapting from an original book conceived by jeff whitty) and the songs of the iconic 1980s’ female rock band, the go-go’s (and brutally honest — and you can’t say you weren’t warned. in the style of monty python and michael frayn’s self-destroying farce noises off (an infinitely cleverer romp), the play that goes wrong, a 2015 london hit written by henry lewis, jonathan sayer and little shop of happiness i’ll be the first to admit that it may be impossible to create a bad production of the 1963 jewel-box musical she loves me. this perfect show, based on the 1937 play parfumerie by miklós lászló, is so resplendent, so charming, and so opera, jules mas*enet’s cendrillon cannot be more delightful, especially for those who love the lightness of french opera. indeed, it is the only french opera programmed this season, and the second mas*enet in three years. the score’s exuberance and playfulness is. music review: michael tilson thomas and pathétique (los angeles philharmonic) rock star. the los angeles native, who made his conducting debut here 50 years ago, proved last night at disney hall that he not only