Palmer was part of a uniformly strong cast the Met assembled for this revival of the classic John Dexter production, first seen in 1977 and absent from the stage for a decade.
That's the question composer Jason Robert Brown explores in "The Last Five Years, " which opened Tuesday in a poignant revival at the Second Stage Theatre, a decade after its first off-Broadway run.
Add to that the fact that New Orleans will be front and center on the world stage for much of the next decade, hosting a series of national and international sporting events, including Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, back-to-back NCAA Men's and Women's Final Fours, and the Bowl Championship Series National Championship in 2012, among many others.
It's highly unusual, of course, for even the finest stage productions to survive for a full decade.
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Less fancifully, the Human Microbiome Project is in the stage the human genome project was a decade ago, when all that was really available was a single reference genome built from the DNA of anonymous volunteers.
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Industry executives should think back to an earlier precedent: the move in cancer trials pushed by Genentech more than a decade ago to make mid-stage trials mirror approval studies, with control groups and patients who are randomly assigned either to get the drug or not.
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Research on many herbs is generally at the stage where studies of vitamins and minerals were a decade ago.
It's about time the concept of taxing all income at a single rate, which presidential candidate Steve Forbes and then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey broached a decade ago, once again takes center stage.
For all her manners, she can be as persistent as the best of them: she lobbied America's National Football League for a decade before it at last agreed to stage the Superbowl in the cold wastes of Minnesota.
These partners, on and off the stage, have been principle dancers with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for more than a decade, but now they've decided to retire.
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