Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a sympathetic look at a murderous barber and the woman who recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a shrewdly staged chamber version...
David Henry Hwang, whose Tony award-winning M. Butterfly is still on Broadway, wrote 1000 Airplanes on the Roof and remains true to Glass's experimental use of time and changing rhythm. At one point M, sinking hopelessly into madness, cries out "Time is a lottery!"--a lottery that pays off only delusion. Hwang also plays with the notion of illusion being more powerful than reality, continuing with a theme he develops in M. Butterfly. Like M. Butterfly, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof is in many ways a study of what happens to the human spirit when all conventions...
Manhattan Transfer: The men's frustrating 1-0 overtime loss to Columbia left them with more memories of New York's stuffy subways, stale pretzels and sidewalk garbage than of Broadway, the Carnegie Deli or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And these were no little-town Blues--after 120 minutes of brutal fouls from Lion defenders, the forward line could relate better to New York's muggings than its knishes...
...LADY IN QUESTION. What is the alleged pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...
SWEENEY TODD. Stephen Sondheim's unlikeliest musical, a sympathetic look at a murderous barber and at the woman who recycles his victims as meat pies, returns to Broadway in a shrewdly staged and highly tuneful chamber version...