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...After a journey of 30 years that has taken him twice to the West and twice back to Bombay, from accountancy to commercials, Hollywood comedies to Broadway musicals, Kapur thinks he's finally ready for "the film I've wanted to make all my life." At 59, he adds, "I've come to the conclusion that I'm unable to live anywhere but India. I need the chaos, to see that people can live in abject poverty with more dignity than even the richest in Bel Air. I need to draw strength and creativity from the courage of a people...
...want to say bravo and best wishes for a long life of growing old together to the steadfast couple [Feb. 21]. In centuries to come, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles' love story will undoubtedly be the subject of novels, plays, films and maybe even an opera or a Broadway musical. And, of course, their parts will be played by beautiful young people. The true story is better. Patricia Collier Annapolis, Maryland...
Spelling Bee started life as a play (originally called C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E) by an off-off-Broadway improv group called The Farm--whose director, Rebecca Feldman, had never quite got over misspelling the word bruise in a grade-school bee. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose nanny was in the cast, went to see it and alerted her friend, composer Finn. He turned it into a musical, which was staged first in Sheffield, Mass., before making the return trip to New York City...
Spelling Bee is quite comfortable in its 296-seat off-Broadway home, where it has been selling out since its early February opening, so there's the usual trepidation about the move to grander, Broadway digs. Producer David Stone insists that the quick transfer was done not to get in under the wire for the Tony nominations but to take advantage of the show's momentum. "The actors were getting so much attention--people clamoring to offer them things--the only way we were going to keep them together was to go quickly," he says. Two splashier Broadway musicals--Monty...
This week's Broadway opening of Monty Python's Spamalot--Eric Idle's musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail--won't just mark the arrival of an all but certain Broadway hit. It will also be the occasion for a rare Python reunion. Along with Idle, all four other living members of the British comedy troupe (Graham Chapman died in 1989) will be in New York City for the show's opening. And at least some in the group think that might provide the spark for a new Python project...