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Robbins' method of integrating movement with every other theatrical element (including sets and lighting) has influenced nearly all the hit musicals now on Broadway. Indeed, Choreographers Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line) and Patricia Birch (Grease, They're Playing Our Song), as well as Director Martin Charnin (Annie), worked as dancers in earlier productions of West Side Story. Though he does not rule out the possibility, it is unlikely that Robbins, now 61, is going to rejoin his progeny by doing a new show soon. "What interests me is a great challenge," he says, "like doing Uncle...
...REMEMBER MAMA Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Martin Charnin and Raymond Jessel Book by Thomas Meehan...
...tarnish his own honor. In recent years he has given us such faded flowers of his once gorgeous talent as Two by Two and Rex. None of the songs in this show need to be pressed in anyone's memory book. As for the lyrics of Martin Charnin and Raymond Jessel, they are, in Hamlet's words, weary, stale, flat and unprofitable...
...People were walking out in droves," recalls Thomas Meehan, who wrote the script. The company began to follow. Director-Lyricist Martin Charnin, part of the team that made Annie a success, was replaced by Cy Feuer, producer of such hits as Guys and Dolls and Can-Can. "There was a confrontation between Liv and me as to how the musical would work," explains Charnin. Cohen and Feuer decided that more excitement was needed. Enter two dancers. They did not fit and were fired. A new choreographer arrived with six more dancers. Rodgers, well known for his speed in composing...
...music of Charles Strouse would scarcely inspire an organ-grinder's monkey to rattle his cup, and Martin Charnin's lyrics are for beginning lip readers. On the plus side, David Mitchell's settings have an imposing splendor, Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes are period perfect, and Peter Gennaro's choreography pleasurably animates what is basically a placid show...