Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANDY PATINKIN: MANDY PATINKIN (CBS). The Broadway (Sunday in the Park with George) and movie (Alien Nation) actor lets fly with a fearlessly melodramatic song cycle chosen from sources as various as Stephen Sondheim and Al Jolson. Some are a bit florid, but the best tunes (like Anyone Can Whistle) have a delicacy that lingers...
BLACK AND BLUE. Three great singers, two dozen top dancers, 28 bluesy numbers and a zillion sequins add up to Broadway's hot new musical revue...
...TAFFETAS. Goofy and winsome and ever so tuneful, this off-Broadway spoof biography of a fictional '50s girl group is superbly arranged and sung...
...million annual budget. Unfortunately, what appears onstage is no guarantee of continued enthusiasm. August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, winner of the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, was daringly reconceived by director Claude Purdy rather than simply copied from the Broadway production. In almost every case, however, the changes dissipated the power of Wilson's poetic drama of rootlessness and religious obsession among blacks in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse...
...Bynum. But that is not the star role, and his vocal legerdemain only distracts from the inadequate James Craven as the play's emblem of unjust suffering, Herald Loomis. The visionary fit at the close of the first act and the self- mutilation at the finale, which terrified Broadway audiences, brought titters in San Francisco...