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...five weeks. He flaps about looking distracted, claiming that he has forgotten the words to his theme song, the Hank Snow tune Hello Love. People in the audience call out the words. He waves an extravagant thanks, grins a froggy grin and rumbles into "Well, look who's comin' through that door,/ I think we've met somewhere before,/ hello love...
...strode to the witness box, she might have hoped that her longtime musical director, John McDaniel, would bang out Everything's Comin' Up Rosie on an upright piano. She might have wanted to pass out free Taboo T shirts to the standing-room-only crowd. It might have helped if the star she called "my Tommy"--Cruise, not Selleck--were there to say what a wonderful person Rosie O'Donnell...
Both Joplin and Nyro (who died of cancer in 1997) are back together onstage, after a fashion--each being celebrated in a new off-Broadway show. In Eli's Comin', five performers (including golden-voiced Broadway vet Judy Kuhn) wend their way through a bookless compendium of 20 of Nyro's best-known songs. Though assembled into a very loose narrative (young girl arrives in New York City; by the end she's sharing confessions with what looks like a therapy group), the show works best--marvelously--as a showcase for Nyro's idiosyncratic and influential music, a lush, emotionally...
...fess up to anything as crass as pandering to nostalgia. "Janis Joplin's music sells better now than it did 20 or 30 years ago," says Jennifer Dumas, producer of Love, Janis. Diane Paulus had never heard Laura Nyro's music before she was asked to direct Eli's Comin', and she argues that this new breed of musicals fits perfectly in the theater's participatory tradition. "If you can bring music into the theater that the audience already has a connection to, you're just increasing the power of what the theater event can be," she says...
...election to local and state offices, he said one of his happiest days was in '63--when he returned to that Savannah drugstore with his sons. They all spun on the stools even after the counterman closed the fountain down. Williams told them, "It's been a long time comin', boys, so let's enjoy...