Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway loves to revisit its musical heritage, but director Sam Mendes' new version of Cabaret is likely to give it a jolt. The sex is raw and upfront: Cliff (John Benjamin Hickey), the American writer who befriends Sally, is more overtly bisexual, and the leering number Two Ladies features a shadow play of simulated sex. The garish emcee (Alan Cumming, giving a spectacularly decadent twist on the part that made Joel Grey's career) sports blue and red eye shadow, sequined nipples and suspenders wrapped around his crotch--Alex from A Clockwork Orange filtered through Madonna's Sex book. Where...
...comes to the U.S. after much success in Europe and London, where it won an Olivier Award for Best Comedy of 1996 and provided a vehicle for such fine actors as Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay. It has been eagerly awaited by Broadway: finally, in a season when big musicals are getting all the buzz, a straight play with a chance of becoming a hot ticket. The U.S. cast boasts at least one marquee name--Alan Alda, who plays Marc with a few too many sitcom inflections--along with two solid co-stars, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina. Director Matthew...
...press conference last month, trendy indy film king Quentin Tarantino expressed his eagerness to "poke out the eye of the monster on Broadway." One wry onlooker commented, "I don't expect to see a one-eyed Frank Rich ['71] walking around anytime soon...
...great concept. It's a great script. It even spawned a great screen adaptation with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. Do yourself a favor and rent the video. Don't bother forking over sixty dollars at the Wilbur Theater, where Wait is waiting out its pre-Broadway run. Director Leonard Foglia's half-hearted stage rendering has its moments, but the production as a whole hovers somewhere between mediocrity and patent ineptitude...
DIED. J.T. WALSH, 54, character actor and specialist in obdurate personae; of a heart attack; outside San Diego. Walsh's sense of icy machismo made him perfect for David Mamet's anomic world; the playwright gave Walsh his first big break when he cast him in the 1984 Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross. Walsh did not start acting until he was 30, yet he brought his skill to nearly 60 film roles, including a turn as John Ehrlichman in Nixon and recently as a redneck kidnapper in the 1997 thriller Breakdown...