Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then when is a Broadway show not a Broadway show...
...entertainment, fervently defended by a musical flat-earth society, has denied audiences the riches that lie beyond the narrow shoals of the classical repertoire. Today, though, singers and conductors are making the voyage and discovering a brave new world on the other side: America's own authentic artistic heritage. Broadway, say hello to high class...
...Broadway shows, however, do not have to be cast with opera stars to be taken seriously. What they have to be first is respected. "There are great theater pieces of the teens, '20s and '30s that don't exist in performable form," laments McGlinn. "If a show closed out of town, the scores could be thrown out on the last night. A lot of pre-Oklahoma! Rodgers and Hart, Porter and Kern shows are gone forever. We're trying to reclaim from oblivion all the work of America's greatest writers and composers...
Fish got to swim, birds got to fly: the best composers will always write seriously, even when they are frankly dressing their tunes for success. The move from Broadway to opera house -- from quotidian show to stage classic, in other words -- is well under way. The only difference is that now people are finally catching...
...Italian Americans in John Patrick Shanley's plays (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and films (Moonstruck). The residents of Shanley's Little Italy dare to express their feelings in street poetry whose melodic line is closer to Verdi's than to Bon Jovi's. In his new off-Broadway play Shanley goes further, announcing that these days it is the women who have aerobicized their hearts and the men who are love-sick. Shanley knows that men are the last dying breed of romantics. Of course: he's Irish American...