Play On!

Play On! is a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, featuring the music of Duke Ellington, with a book by Cheryl L. West. The musical resets the story in 1940s Harlem.

Production history

The original production, conceived by director Sheldon Epps, premiered in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in September 1996. After 19 previews, it opened on Broadway on March 20, 1997 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it ran for 61 performances. The cast included Tonya Pinkins, André De Shields, and Carl Anderson. An original cast recording was released on May 20, 1997 on Varèse Sarabande.

The book, by playwright Cheryl L. West, departs from Twelfth Night's usual setting of Illyria, resetting the play's action and characters in 1940s Swing-era Harlem.

Synopsis

Vy comes to swinging 1940s Harlem to write songs for the Duke, Harlem's greatest band leader. To overcome the sexist barriers of the time against women songwriters, she disguises herself as a man, Vy-man. She finds the Duke in tears over his loss of Lady Liv, Harlem's "queen of the blues". The Duke likes Vy-man's music, so he instructs the songwriter to go to the Cotton Club and present one of her songs as if it were a new song written by the Duke for Lady Liv. Lady Liv finds Vy-man charming, and a series of mistaken pairings results.

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Play On (John Miles album)

Play On is the sixth solo album by John Miles released in 1983 via EMI label.

Overview

EMI promised that Miles would use a top producer and top session musicians for his second album for EMI.

Eventually they chose Gus Dudgeon who had worked with artists like Elton John, Chris Rea and Elkie Brooks. Originally, the album was planned to be released in 1982, but because Dudgeon was not available at the time, the release was delayed.

It was also the first time that drummer Barry Black and bassist Bob Marshall were not used on the album. (Although Marshall still wrote the songs with Miles) Instead they were replaced by session musicians. "The Right to Sing" was the first single released from the album and was written about the fact that record companies wanted to decide which songs Miles had to release and which direction he had to take.

"That's Rock 'n' Roll" was left off the album, because it was too different and was released as a B-side.

Track listing

All songs written by Bob Marshall and John Miles

Zézé

José Gilson Rodriguez, commonly called Zézé, (18 December 1942 – 31 May 2006) was a Brazilian professional footballer, who played for, among other clubs, 1. FC Köln in the Bundesliga.

Zézé was the first-ever Brazilian player in the German Bundesliga but left the country after being diagnosed with a snow allergy.

Career

Zézé spend his early career with Madureira, Guaratinguetá and Madureira again before being signed by 1. FC Köln in the summer of 1964, on the advice of Polish player agent Julius Ukrainczyk, without ever having been scouted by a representative of the club. He was signed for a then club record fee of DM 150,000 and allegedly arrived in Cologne on a Banana boat from Brazil. Zézé impressed the club in warm up matches before the start of the season, raising hopes he would be a miracle forward.

Zézé made his debut for 1. FC Köln on 22 August 1964 in a 2–3 loss to Hertha BSC. He played one more game for the club in 1964, in December against 1. FC Nürnberg. Zézé's next appearance in a competitve match for Köln was on 20 February 1965 when he played against Eintracht Braunschweig. He made an appearance in a 0–0 away draw at Liverpool F.C. in the quarter final of the European Cup in March, with 1. FC Köln exiting the 1964–65 edition after three drawn games on coin toss. Zézé then played two more Bundesliga matches, against Karlsruher SC and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. In the latter he registered his only goal for Köln in a competitive match when he scored the first goal in a 3–0 win. He was however not the first Brazilian to score in the Bundesliga, with Raoul Tagliari already having done so in a match for Meidericher SV against 1. FC Nürnberg on 21 November 1964, making his Bundesliga debut in this game three month after Zézé.

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GF(2)

GF(2) (also F₂, Z/2Z or Z₂) is the Galois field of two elements. It is the smallest finite field.

Definition

The two elements are nearly always called 0 and 1, being the additive and multiplicative identities, respectively.

The field's addition operation is given by the table below, which corresponds to the logical XOR operation.

The field's multiplication operation corresponds to the logical AND operation.

One may also define GF(2) as the quotient ring of the ring of integers Z by the ideal 2Z of all even numbers: GF(2) = Z/2Z.

Properties

Because GF(2) is a field, many of the familiar properties of number systems such as the rational numbers and real numbers are retained:

Properties that are not familiar from the real numbers include: