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...world-renowned New York City studio. Among his credits: choreographing films (The Cotton Club, Tap) and Broadway musicals (Sophisticated Ladies, Eubie!, Black and Blue--the last of which won him a Tony). He mentored some of tap's brightest stars, including Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen...
...Kiss of the Spider Woman. Better than the movie, bolder than the book, this brassy musical centers on a homosexual flirtation in an Argentine prison. Scenes of torture crosscut to film fantasies with hunks and feathers. Comebacks for star Chita Rivera, director Harold Prince, composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, plus a stellar debut for Brent Carver in a show asserting there can be no freedom without sexual freedom...
...only pleasurable jolt in this revival of Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's 1982 musical, based on Fellini's 8 1/2. Sure, there's film star Antonio Banderas making his Broadway debut as the director, and Chita Rivera, in a supporting role, drawing the obligatory cheers for still being able to lift her leg onto his shoulder at age 70. But the show prompts the same question it did 20 years ago: Why turn a movie with one of the greatest film scores ever written (by Nino Rota) into a Broadway musical with mediocre songs...
...LaFosse, as Tony, to Something's Coming. It is a buoyant, flying solo. Darting in all directions, trying out the paths his life might take, LaFosse again shows he is an ideal Robbins dancer, whether on Broadway or in ballet. The other standout is Nancy Ticotin, who plays Anita, Chita Rivera's role in the original production. A Broadway gypsy diva, Ticotin gives an all-out, earthy performance...
...Terrence has the rhythm of life," says Chita Rivera, star of two musicals (The Rink and the current Tony winner Kiss of the Spider Woman) for which McNally wrote the books. "He's musical. He writes to the rhythm of the person. If he knows you, he'll go to the core, right down to the gut." John Tillinger, director of McNally's recent plays, sees a flowering in the veteran playwright. "In his earlier work," he says, "he wanted to write about deep feelings but felt he didn't have the right to do it. Who would have guessed...