Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a generation in certified cult status, the concept was brought to the stage in a cutesy-campy off-Broadway musical that quickly spawned spin-off productions in around the country. Big time producer David Geffen found himself drawn to the tale, and hired Muppeteer-turned-director Frank Oz to return it to the screen. Today this absurd story, which once could rate only a black and white exploitation picture, is a multi-million dollar showcase for the insidious Saturday Night Live/SCTV crew that has dominated youth comedy for a decade...
...HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES John Guare's zany yet compassionate portrait of losers who live in awe of celebrities is having an impeccable Broadway . revival. Swoosie Kurtz's mad housewife was the performance of the year...
...GIRL Effervescent, corny and completely irresistible, this 1937 British musical about a Cockney turned lord has conquered Broadway. Robert Lindsay's seemingly matchless star turn is gloriously rivaled by his once and future successor, Jim Dale...
...collects in an oversize volume works that few enthusiasts have ever seen. Here are his broadsides for operas by Mozart and Janacek (with sets and costumes from designs by the artist). Here are brilliant announcements for the International Year of the Child; a magnificent lion and butterfly for the Broadway flop Stages; and 1985's poster for Jewish Book Month, with the sound rabbinical advice, "To three possessions thou shouldst look. Acquire a field, a friend, a book...
...MOST PAINFUL SCREECH The inharmonious notes emitted by such flops as Rags, Raggedy Ann, Into the Light and Honky Tonk Nights, which indicated that the once robust Broadway musical is very sick indeed...