Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ANNIE GET YOUR GUN/KISS ME, KATE O.K., it's sad that the best musicals on Broadway are so often the old ones, but when you leave the theater on such a high, it's hard to complain. Bernadette Peters frees Irving Berlin's Annie Oakley from the iron grip of Ethel Merman in Graciela Daniele's revisionist production. Michael Blakemore plays it straighter with Kate but gives stars Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie a terrific showcase...
...CONTACT How to get the ailing Broadway musical off life support? Director Susan Stroman and writer John Weidman have an answer: Cut out the singing. Their exhilarating show is composed of three heartfelt love stories told in dance and dialogue accompanied mostly by a wildly diverse jukebox of pop records and enlivened by the performances of Deborah Yates and Karen Ziemba...
...Broadway impresario, who has spent a half-century creating musicals such as Evita, Cabaret, Company and Phantom of the Opera, was appalled to learn that the June ceremony's network telecast did not include any mention of authors, designers, directors or choreographers...
...that, the 20-time Tony Award winner told a packed Cabot House Living Room yesterday afternoon, is emblematic of Broadway's current, sorry state...
Prince bemoaned "McShows--small vest-pocket revue-type versions of Broadway shows," which take up space better used by more imaginative productions...