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Retiring Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) will teach "Creating Legislation: Congress and the Press." It'll draw on the three-term senator's political career, including his oft-controversial encounters with the media. It meets this semester...
...Sept. 30 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. (Look for long, circular conversations between Faust and the devil.) Terrence McNally (Master Class) is tackling the book for Ragtime, a musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, which begins a pre-Broadway run in Toronto in December. And Britain's prolific Alan Ayckbourn (Absurd Person Singular; Woman in Mind) wrote the book for and is directing a revamped version of By Jeeves, based on the P.G. Wodehouse character, at Connecticut's Goodspeed-at-Chester theater. The musical was a flop back in the 1970s, but its composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, seems...
Until now. After the drought, the deluge: five new movie musicals. The big news is the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita, a stage hit that Hollywood has wanted to film for nearly two decades. Alan Parker (Fame) finally got it done, with Madonna as Argentina's Material Girl, Jonathan Pryce as Juan Peron and Antonio Banderas as the narrator...
Woody Allen, whose dialogue has often provided ironic counterpoint to Gershwin melodies, has made Everyone Says I Love You, in which Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda and others break into song. Fortunately, the scary prospect of Alda warbling is balanced by the songs themselves--swank standards...
...overlooked--or even denigrated--the quality of Liszt's mind and nature, the range of his work and influence, his greatness as a composer. Indeed, no other composer of the 19th century has been so copiously written about and so little understood, which is why the final volume of Alan Walker's superb three-volume biography, Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886 (Knopf; 594 pages; $50), is so welcome...