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There were problems onstage too, which became apparent when the show started preview performances in early December. Its story of Salvador Agron--a Puerto Rican teenager convicted of killing two white youths in a Hell's Kitchen playground in 1959--was confused and uninvolving; the staging lacked energy; and there was surprisingly little dancing for a show directed by an acclaimed choreographer, Mark Morris. Last month the producers enticed veteran director Jerry Zaks (the Tony Award-winning revival of Guys and Dolls) to take over as show doctor. He in turn brought in a new choreographer, Joey McKneely. That left...
...creative team is upbeat. "One of the things that amazes me," Ednita Nazario, who plays Agron's mother, said Friday during a break in the show's final rehearsal, "is this perception that there's this huge crisis and turmoil around the play. And it's so not true." Zaks says he took on the daunting task because he was excited by the chance to "help something already on its way to being something, to become what it wants to be," and he says he's happy with the results after a scant three weeks. The show's producers, meanwhile...
Simon got the idea for The Capeman nearly a decade ago, recalling a famous crime from his New York City childhood. Agron and an accomplice--dubbed the Capeman and the Umbrella Man because witnesses identified them by those accoutrements--made tabloid headlines, feeding the public's fears of juvenile delinquency and gang violence. At 16, Agron became the youngest person ever to receive the death penalty in New York State, a sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. In prison, Agron educated himself, began writing poetry and left-wing political tracts and became a cause celebre for liberal intellectuals...
Walcott's daily life is hectic. As the co-writer of the book and lyrics for Paul Simon's long-awaited musical The Capeman, he has a Broadway opening this month--an unusually suspenseful opening. The Capeman, which tells the story of Salvador Agron, a Puerto Rican teen who killed two white youths in a Manhattan playground in 1959, has been plagued by a drumbeat of doomsaying in the New York media, last-minute changes and a postponed opening date. The Nobel curse may be chasing Walcott, but his productivity seems unaffected. His most recent book of poetry, The Bounty...
Heisler, moved up from fifth to fourth man, topped Ken Agron of Penn and Bob Abodeely of Columbia on the 18th hole of both matches. Purdy easily beat Dan Basarich of Columbia, 4 and 3, but had to take Penn's Jim Sheldon all the way to the 18th before he downed...