Close will provide the voice of the " Giant " in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into The Woods, which begins in previews on July 23, 2012, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

* The 1979 musical " Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street " written by Stephen Sondheim and based upon Christopher Bond's 1973 play of the same name, begins with its protagonist, Sweeney Todd, returning to London in 1846 having spent fifteen years in an unnamed British penal colony in Australia.

LaMarr is playing Cowboy Curtis in the Broadway production of The Pee-wee Herman Show which begins performances Oct. 26th at the newly named Stephen Sondheim Theater.

* The essay The Median Isn't the Message by Stephen Jay Gould begins by repeating this quote.

It begins in the west from the Canada-United States border at St. Stephen, and runs east for to Route 2 at River Glade.

Without knowing for sure if he is on the station yet or not, Garibaldi begins his manhunt by questioning Stephen Franklin, who believes wholeheartedly in Jacobs ' innocence.

The episode begins with Sheridan believing that he is sitting in his quarters on Babylon 5, having a meal with Dr. Stephen Franklin.

The serial begins with the murder of a young man, in what appears to be a drug-related killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for MP Stephen Collins ( Morrissey ).

The modern history of Coggeshall begins around 1140 when King Stephen and his queen Matilda, founded a large Savigniac abbey with 12 monks from Savigny in France, the last to be established before the order was absorbed by the Cistercians in 1147.

** NDP: The NDP switches strategy and begins to attack Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.

Nikolas arrives in Port Charles with his uncle Stefan ( Stephen Nichols ) where they decide to stay, creating tension in the Spencer family, especially when Stefan begins to romance Bobbie.

On September 26, 2012, Ambrose was in the news again having voted in favour of Motion 312, a motion by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth that would have directed a Commons committee to revisit the section of the Criminal Code defining at what point human life begins.

From Kirkby Stephen East station on the SD & LUR the line to Cumbria curves northwest to the junction at which the Eden Valley railway separates from the Tebay line and begins to travel roughly north.

The story begins in medias res, with Stephen Chow having ordered and subsequently criticized Turkey's ( Karen Mok ) Assorted Noodles for its lack of taste, terrible choice of ingredients and feces in the pig's colon, as she lashes out at him for his criticism towards her cooking.

Caroline begins to get closer to ex-husband Stephen and warns his new love interest Jenny Turner to stay away from him and the two become rivals.

1937 also saw a ten minute made-for-TV extract from Richard III, directed by Stephen Thomas, and starring Ernest Milton as Richard and Beatrix Lehm as Lady Anne ( 9 April ); a one-hundred minute abridged version of Orson Welles ' legendary modern dress Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, starring Welles himself as Caesar and George Coulouris as Mark Antony ; and a thirty minute extract from André van Gyseghem's Embassy Theatre production of Cymbeline starring George Woodbridge as Cymbeline and Joyce Bland as Imogen ( 29 November ).

* Photo, US Dragoons officer's full dress coat, of Stephen W. Kearny, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis

Lowther, like Stephen, came from an aristocratic family, adopted a masculine style of dress, and was an accomplished fencer, tennis player, motorist and jujitsu enthusiast.

Then she changed into a white dress for a final speech in which she " begged humanity, ' already used to earthquakes and murderers ,' to try to put up with a minor calamity like the play's and the book's Lesbian protagonist, Stephen Gordon ".

In the video Harry wears a silver asymmetrical dress designed by Stephen Sprouse.

Stephen or Steven () is a masculine first name, derived from the Greek name Στέφανος ( Stephanos ) meaning " crown, garland ", in turn from the Greek word " στέφανος ", meaning " wreath, crown, honour, reward ", literally " that which surrounds or encompasses ".

* John Stephen, Scottish clothes designer

The master, Stephen Limbry, agreed to pick up the King from Charmouth beach and transport him to the ship, but just two hours before the pick up Limbry told his wife, who locked him in his room and stole his clothes to ensure he would not become involved.

The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.

Isaac made a desperate attack on the imperial agents and killed their leader Stephen Hagiochristophorites.

" In October 2007 when Bob Jones III, as " a private citizen ," endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for president, Stephen Jones made it clear that he wished " to stay out of politics " and that neither he nor the university had endorsed anyone.

But whatever were the reasons behind the votes of the majority, the rejection of the Measures made it plain that the Church does not possess full spiritual freedom to determine its worship ..." Stephen Neill points out that the Roman Catholic members of parliament abstained from voting.

As UCLA law professor Stephen Yeazell has pointed out, the most likely reason is that the abysmally poor transportation, communications, and administrative apparatus of medieval times made it impossible for the English sovereign to directly manage the entire country in terms of individuals ; it was easier to structure society by imposing obligations upon groups which were enforced by the sporadic use of force.

According to this argument, made by scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, it would be improbable for life not to exist somewhere other than Earth.

Louis Bolk made a long list of such traits, and Stephen Jay Gould published a short list in Ontogeny and Phylogeny.

* 1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

The debate in the senate concluded on March 4, 1854, when Stephen Douglas, beginning near midnight on March 3, made a five-and-a-half-hour speech.

* " Monitor " a work by English video artist Stephen Partridge made in 1975

These humiliations, the weakening of the empire in the face of Muslim expansion, and the inability of the emperor to protect the papal estates against the Lombards, made Pope Stephen II turn from Emperor Constantine V. He appealed to the Franks to protect his lands.

The Lombard king, shutting Stephen up in his suites in the Basilica, made it clear to the Pope that the price for his help was to be the handing over of Christophorus and Sergius.

That such a letter was a fiction was demonstrated very soon after ; when Stephen asked Desiderius to fulfil the promises he had made over the body of Saint Peter, the Lombard king responded:

Five days after the death of Pope Victor II ( who had made him cardinal-priest and abbot of Monte Cassino ) he was chosen to succeed him as Pope Stephen IX.

Criticism, most notably made by Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould, centered on sociobiology's contention that genes play an ultimate role in human behavior and that traits such as aggressiveness can be explained by biology rather than a person's social environment.

Stephen married Matilda of Boulogne, inheriting additional estates in Kent and Boulogne that made the couple one of the wealthiest in England.

Meanwhile, Stephen's younger brother Henry of Blois had also risen to power under Henry I. Henry of Blois had become a Cluniac monk and followed Stephen to England, where the king made him Abbot of Glastonbury, the richest abbey in England.

Theobald then agreed to the Normans ' proposal that he be made king, only to find that his former support immediately ebbed away: the barons were not prepared to support the division of England and Normandy by opposing Stephen.

Stephen issued a new royal charter, confirming the promises he had made to the church, promising to reverse Henry's policies on the royal forests and to reform any abuses of the royal legal system.

Abandoning the deal he had just made, Stephen gathered his army again and sped north, but not quite fast enough — Ranulf escaped Lincoln and declared his support for the Empress, and Stephen was forced to place the castle under siege.

On this occasion, however, William Martel, Stephen's steward, made a fierce rear guard effort, allowing Stephen to escape from the battlefield.

With all of his other problems and with Hugh Bigod still in open revolt in Norfolk, Stephen lacked the resources to track Geoffrey down in the Fens and made do with building a screen of castles between Ely and London, including Burwell Castle.

By this point in the war, Stephen was depending increasingly on his immediate royal household, such as William of Ypres and others, and lacked the support of the major barons who might have been able to provide him with significant additional forces ; after the events of 1141, Stephen made little use of his network of earls.