Word: carousels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proved that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets. Perhaps it's as modern as 1968, when this season's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat first displayed the talents of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Or perhaps it's as far back as 1945, when this season's most eagerly awaited musical, Carousel, first revealed heaven on earth. By season's end the year may seem as contemporary as 1972, when the tentatively scheduled Grease first revved its engines, or as antiquarian as 1927, when the impending Show Boat first tooted its horn...
...such minimalist video dramas as An Englishman Abroad with Alan Bates and Talking Heads with Maggie Smith. The staging's cinematic blend of pageantry and intimacy is a drama showcase for Hytner, best known for musicals such as Broadway's Miss Saigon and the Broadway-bound London revival of Carousel. The brevity of the eight-week U.S. run, combined with its vast scale -- 23 actors onstage and a staff of 22 -- pretty much ensures it will be at best a break- even for the Royal National. Explains artistic director Richard Eyre: "We are doing it to raise our profile." Although...
...BROADWAY MUSICAL HAS INFLUENCED the form more than Oklahoma!, which integrated songs and dances into narrative. Its debut 50 years ago this month launched the partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, who went on to Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. Their words and music are lovingly recalled in A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING, a revue at New York City's premier cabaret, Rainbow & Stars. The show is one of hundreds of ways the anniversary is being marked -- from productions, concerts, CDs and books to a museum show of set designs...
...place and time. The front , curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more precisely, Simon's musical hit Sweet Charity. A carousel-like jungle gym in Day-Glo tones suggests the '70s, as do the male lead's fixations on meditation and macrobiotics. The sexual precocity of the female lead's 12-year-old daughter feels contemporary. Yet the sonorous music and often sentimental lyrics seem straight from the '50s. This mishmash makes...
...film opens in Dallas, where Ruby (Danny Aiello) runs the Carousel Club, a burlesque bar. In need of a dancer, Ruby visits his usual haunt, the Greyhound depot diner, where he meets stripper-to-be Sheryl Ann Dujean (a blonde Sherilyn Fenn...