Word: broadway
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...play, Wit, the Atlanta kindergarten teacher's immediate response was to keep cleaning her classroom. Edson wrote Wit in 1991, when she was working at a bicycle shop. The unsentimental story of a woman dying of ovarian cancer wended its way through various regional theaters before ending up off-Broadway six months ago. Edson, 37, says she has no firm plans to write another play and remains dedicated to her current work. She did celebrate: just champagne and pizza, though. After all, she said, "it [was] a school night...
...McAnuff, the director of The Who's Tommy, spoke those words in 1992, just before his Broadway production of the rock opera won five Tony awards. At the time, he was speaking about fans of The Who, who just wanted a concert without all the flashy theatrical interpretation. But today, his words come back to haunt...
Overall, the show has changed for the worse, but some good reasoning must have been behind such a decision. Admittedly, the original Broadway and first national tour productions of Tommy were horrifically expensive--bright costumes, extensive audio-visual equipment (including a border of TVs that framed the set) and a pinball machine that whirled in mid-air before exploding all cost money. True, fancy props do not necessarily a great musical make (Disney's hackneyed and overpriced Beauty and The Beast: The Musical, for example.) But when combined with the already-dazzling score of Tommy, the effects of the original...
...onstage severely limited the choreographical possibilities of the production. Ultra-simplistic costumes (and anachronistic ones, in the case of Mrs. Walker's '90sstyle tank tops and miniskirts) are an interesting artistic possibility, but they make this Tommy look like a bad interpretation of an interpretation. (Think a "Tribute to Broadway Revue" on a Carnival Cruise ship.) In addition, there is simply no reason for the Colonial Theater to charge people $70 to watch and hear genuinely bad acting and singing...
...Broadway hit, Blue Man Group is playing in Boston. It's great time for a group, a date, or just some alone time. One hint: Don't wear anything too nice, you never when you may become a member of the blue man group. The Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton...