Word: bialystock
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Broadway musical looks like it will run forever. And maybe it deserves to. Of course, the 75-year-old amateur had help from some talented pros, especially director Susan Stroman, who serves up show stopper after show stopper, and Nathan Lane (with Matthew Broderick, left), a Max Bialystock even Zero Mostel would have loved...
...grief, Stro plunged herself heart and soul into the show. What an imagination she has! I would write a song, and then she would take over. It was her imagination that made the show the monster hit it is. Take the scene where Leo Bloom has just met Max Bialystock and Max asks him to join his world of show business. Leo is scared to death because Max has touched upon his dream, so he flees back to his accounting office. I wrote a simple, touching song for Leo to sing all by himself, I Wanna Be a Producer. Stro...
...That old Broadway dazzle is fine, but musicals can also provoke us, engage us in fresh ways, push the boundaries of the form. For that you have to look beyond Broadway--where, by chance, three inventive new musicals have arrived to give us something of what Mel and Max Bialystock (Honest, we love you both...
...ready for a staged reading last April, Geffen had reluctantly dropped out owing to other commitments, so a new chorus line of potential backers was invited. By the intermission, Rocco Landesman, head of the Jujamcyn theater chain, said he was in. Others followed quickly. Broderick and Lane (who played Bialystock at the reading) were cast, though it took some convincing. Lane wavered because he felt his character had too little to do in the second act; he stayed only after Brooks promised to write a new number for him, which ultimately became an Act II showstopper called Betrayed...
...cutting some favorite bits from the movie. The character of the hippie actor hired to play Hitler (Dick Shawn in the film) was junked as too dated. (Hitler is now played by the show-within-a-show's gay director.) And the movie's ending, with Bloom and Bialystock in prison, has been altered, so that the pair end up winners. What, you were expecting Kafka...