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...Wodehouse's heart was in musical comedy. He was writing lyrics for London's West End in his 20s, and by 1917, five shows featuring his lyrics were playing simultaneously on Broadway. Commuting to the U.S., Wodehouse collaborated with Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter. "Musical comedy was my dish," Wodehouse wrote of those happy days. "I would rather have written Oklahoma! than Hamlet.'" But the real money was in Wooster-shire. After a stream of popular stories about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired...
...close; that?s life and death upon the wicked stage. But do shows open in the hot weather? Not ever. No, never. (Well, hardly ever. ?Hairspray? came to town two Augusts ago and has done nicely.) So if you?re in search of innovative, often inspiring theater instead of Broadway?s summer reruns, get thee to London. I did, a while back, and had an exalting time. Though all the plays I saw were set in the past, many had a modern relevance...
...Bush-U.S. worldview, and the Blair-U.K. subsidiary role in it, a top priority. ?Guantanamo,? the documentary play about British citizens detained at the U.S. base in Cuba for years without being charged, has transferred from a successful run in London to New York?s off-Broadway. In a kind of Equity trade, the West End gets Tim Robbins? play ?Embedded,? after lengthy stints in Los Angeles and New York...
...Frayn?s new play is the story of that spy, Gunther Guillaume, who made himself indispensible to Brandt and became one of his three secretaries, vetting all the Chancellor?s papers after sending copies to his bosses in East Berlin. Conleth Hill (who amused Broadway audiences as one of the two actors playing dozens of roles in ?Stones in My Pockets? three years back) incarnates Guillaume as a piggy-faced toady who can?t help admiring his victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical...
...DIED. DANIEL PETRIE, 83, prolific television director who also made such memorable motion pictures as A Raisin in the Sun (1961), starring Sidney Poitier, and Resurrection (1980), with Ellen Burstyn; in Los Angeles. The Canadian native and former Broadway actor made his mark in the 1960s directing such gritty TV series as The Defenders and East Side/West Side and then began making TV films, including Sybil, starring Sally Field. He won a 1976 Emmy for Eleanor and Franklin, a TV mini-series about the Roosevelts, and another the following year for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years...