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Another op'nin', another show," sings the cast at the start of Kiss Me, Kate, but the Broadway revival was another show a-closin' in the days that followed Sept. 11. Even after the unions agreed to a 25% pay cut to keep ailing Broadway shows alive, Kate's producers still couldn't see a way to continue. Then a stagehand came up with a hey-kids-let's-save-the-show idea: if the cast and crew would voluntarily give up another 25% of their pay for four weeks and use the money to buy tickets for fire fighters...
...drop by when it's convenient to/Be sure and call before you do." The nephew of Hollywood Composer-Conductors Alfred and Lionel Newman, Randy the arranger is also a match for Randy the balladeer. In Cowboy, for example ("Cold gray buildings where a hill should be/Steel and concrete closin' in on me"), he evokes lonely saddles and scattered dust with craggy orchestral brush strokes that show a familiarity with Aaron Copland's Rodeo and Billy...
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