Here are the rules -- no flour, no cornstarch, no baking powder or baking soda, no yeast; therefore, no bread or challah for French toast, no noodles for kugel, no toasted bagels for the cream cheese, no "snap, crackle and pop" cereals, no croissants or muffins to round out our coffee. You know the routine -- eggs, matzah meal, matzah...

Idina Menzel was green before green was the new black. Eco-excellent: Well, she was also black-hatted. But then, when you're portraying the green-glittered "Wicked" Witch of the West, which end is up is sometimes a cauldron of bewitching contradictions. Which, in a way, is how she ends up on the Keswick Theatre ( www.keswicktheatre.com ) stage, where the woman who...