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...turns out, Glass's most fully realized Gesamtkunstwerk has its origins in the movies. For his new opera, La Belle et la Bete (Beauty and the Beast), which had its American premiere last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Glass has finally found the perfect vehicle for his Wagnerism in the film of the same title by the French author, aesthete and cineaste Jean Cocteau. Glass's is the best version of the story yet -- even surpassing Disney's animated movie musical...
...confected by Broadway's top talent, including set designer Tony Walton, costume designer William Ivey Long, choreographer Susan Stroman and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. Some are working at half speed. Menken's melodies are less inventive than his scores for the Disney cartoons The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. He gets a B+ for hummable ballads and ho-humbuggable comic turns. Stroman's jazziest ideas are reprises of her dancing-on-furniture number from Crazy for You. Ahrens' lyrics are wan, snapless. It takes a while for the 90-min. show to become more than...
...Persia of British parents. Her mother was a nurse, her father a World War I amputee who gained more his wife's pity than her love. Doris was called Tigger after the Winnie-the-Pooh character -- the whole family had A.A. Milne nicknames -- because she was a "healthy bouncy beast." When she was five, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia, hearts set on the wealth to be had in farming and mining. But a crippled man could hardly tame the bush; living was rough and laborious...
...loneliness that hurts most for the kids. Holidays are especially cruel. Haunted by advertisements celebrating family life, many youths venture home in December, hoping perhaps Dad isn't such a beast after all. "They end up fighting over the holidays, and by January they're off again," says Knight. "I know three kids who got on the bus on New Year...
...Belle (from Beauty and the Beast...