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BY BETHONIE BUTLER

The Latin Grammys celebrated

20 years of “the biggest night in

Latin music” o n Thursday, a nd t he

ceremony’s biggest honor went to

Rosalía, the Catalan singer whose

flamenco-infused pop has pro-

pelled her to the verge of interna-

tional superstardom.

While nominees for album of

the year included Panamanian-

born Latin jazz veteran Rubén

Blades, Argentine rocker Andrés

Calamaro and Luis Fonsi — the

Puerto Rican pop star whose 2017

smash “Despacito” topped the

Billboard chart for 17 weeks — it

wasn’t altogether surprising that

Rosalía took home the trophy. Her

exuberantly well-reviewed sopho-

more effort, “el Mal Querer,”

which blended flamenco styles

with more modern genres includ-

ing electronic and R&B, debuted

atop Billboard’s Latin pop albums

chart last november and broke

spotify streaming records in her

native s pain.

There is a long tradition of span-

ish artists in Latin music, a genre

that (at least within the music in-

dustry) has been defined as music

recorded in the spanish language.

since the first Latin Grammys tele-

cast in 2000, the Latin Recording

Academy — headquartered in Mi-

ami — has recognized spanish

(and Portuguese) musicians.

Honorees have included leg-

endary spanish crooner Julio I gle-

sias, his son enrique Iglesias and

Alejandro sanz, a spanish pop v et-

eran. s anz was t he m ost-nominat-

ed artist at this year’s ceremony,

which a ired o n Univision.

Rosalía picked up five nods,

making her the most-nominated

female artist for the second con-

secutive year. she won in four of

see rosalía on C2

Rosalía’s win

at the Latin

Grammys

hits a nerve

BY PETER MARKS

Feet do all the best talking in

Arena stage’s “newsies.”

oh, t here is the r egular invento-

ry of other body parts in director

Molly smith’s faithful revival, but

the various gestures and vocaliza-

tions they execute over the course

of this plain vanilla musical don’t

amount to much.

It’s t he appendage t hat routine-

ly taps the floorboards — and wait

till you see t he w ay f eatured n ews-

boy Luke spring taps! — that as-

sumes t he starring role here. Park-

er esse, the choreographer for

smith’s fine productions of “okla-

homa!” and “The Music Man,”

marshals a brigade o f young danc-

ers so vivaciously that Arena’s

Fichandler s tage takes on the e xu-

berant spirit of a halftime show.

Disney originally had modest

aspirations for this stage version

of its 1992 live-action movie musi-

cal about a scruffy band of news-

paper hawkers who go on strike

against a publishing titan in turn-

of-the-20th-century new York. It

did not set its sights on Broadway

until the positive press for its 2 011

premiere at new Jersey’s Paper

Mill Playhouse. one can see,

though, why executives were ini-

tially hesitant: The show by com-

poser Alan Menken, lyricist Jack

Feldman and book writer Harvey

Fierstein exudes old-school corni-

ness. Its anthem — “one for all,

and all for one,” goes the lyric in

“seize the Day” — is catchy, but

much of the score retains the fla-

vor o f summer stock.

see theater review on C4

theater review

Arena Stage’s

‘Newsies’

finds its extra

in its steps

BY HANK STUEVER

netflix’s “ The Crown” returns for a third season in

topmost form sunday after a wait of two years, which

is still not as long as the w ait f or some kind o f solution

to Brexit. It has a smashingly good new cast (whose

performances are equal to if not better than their

predecessors’) and a brisk, almost urgent sense of

galloping through the long life story of Queen eliza-

beth II.

As b efore, i t’s a show to savor — every d rop of it. Ten

episodes, opening a few months before the death of

Winston Churchill in 1965 and ending with the

queen’s 2 5th jubilee i n 1977, c an easily seem like never

enough, even when a couple of episodes start to

wheeze toward the e nd.

Played by oscar winner olivia Colman (“The Fa-

vourite”), this queen becomes the far more recogniz-

able stalwart, the stiffest upper lip in the United

Kingdom, so sparing in her interactions that even she

wonders whether she might have some sort of social

anxiety disorder. she fantasizes about a life in which

she has to care only about her racehorses. As envi-

sioned by creator Peter Morgan and his team, “The

Crown’s” greatest strength is the way it richly imag-

ines those private moments that no one ever saw.

see tv review on C3

tv review

‘The Crown’: A jewel of a cast

The Netflix series returns with midlife crises, but some of the episodes aren’t as spry as a corgi

photos by sophie mutevelian/netflix

oscar-winning actress olivia Colman, at top, plays Queen elizabeth ii, and

helena bonham Carter is Princess Margaret, the queen’s increasingly dissatisfied

sister, in the new season of netflix’s “the Crown.”

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rosalía won four latin

Grammys, including album of

the year and best urban song.

BY ROBIN GIVHAN

she entered the room with her
American flag sparkling and sa-
bers flying.
Former ambassador to
Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch sat
before the House Intelligence
Committee already speaking the
language of diplomacy with its
peculiar mix of calm, bluntness
and symbolism. Before she ut-
tered a single word, she had al-
ready announced her patriotism,
toughness, experience and indi-
vidual humanity, all with her
style.
Her prepared remarks told her
backstory in detail. In a quiet,
almost soothing voice, Yovano-
vitch schooled the listening pub-
lic on her fearlessness while also
correcting any misinformation
that her life as a diplomat was a
glamorous affair. Her chosen ca-
reer of more than 30 years had
given her a nomadic life, she said,
one that regularly included being
in harm’s way.
“There is a perception that

diplomats lead a comfortable life

throwing dinner parties in fancy

homes. Let me tell you about

some of my reality. It has not

always been easy. I have moved 13

times and served in seven differ-

ent countries, five of them hard-

ship posts,” s he said. she and her

colleagues have been under gun-

fire as diplomats. But she carried

on, she said, because it “was our

duty.”

Her clothes sketched out the

broad strokes of her identity as a

veteran of Washington. “The

woman,” as President Trump re-

ferred to her in a July 25 phone

call, had slipped off her red coat

to reveal a sizable American flag

brooch glittering from the lapel of

her dark jacket. It was striking

because of its size, but also be-

cause it was a classically feminine

accessory with its sparkly stones

and its swirling lines. It was nota-

ble in the room because the lapels

of the mostly male panel — which

was separated by party — were

adorned with their congressional

see notebook on C2

critic’s Notebook

At hearing, former ambassador’s scarf is draped with symbolism

matt mcclain/the Washington post

Marie Yovanovitch at Friday’s impeachment hearing on Capitol hill. her scarf is “a stately

declaration of military might, of a willingness to fight for one’s honor,” robin Givhan writes.

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