Word: diva
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...nightmares and midday flashes of terror. This, the aspiring pop music diva hadn't bargained...
...dancing at 60, Kiss is her first Broadway show since Jerry's Girls in 1986. During that run, she broke her leg in a car accident and was told she might never again walk, let alone skitter, strut and tango eight times a week as a combination film- noir diva and emblem of death...
...that cell." Tactfully, her hosts did not tell her she had been considered, and passed over, for the title role as the fantasy creature of the decorator's reveries. Having cast an actress a generation younger, they belatedly realized they needed, as Rivera laughingly phrases it, "a diva." Once the show's creators bowed to the axiom that it takes a star to play a star, Rivera, like many an actress before her, wanted her part built...
...Marvin Hamlisch, composer of Broadway's longest-running show ever, A Chorus Line, and David Zippel, whose lyrics for City of Angels were the wittiest in years. Graciela Daniele, a six-time Tony nominee, was recruited to mount musical numbers. The leads were cast with Bernadette Peters, the reigning diva of musicals, and Martin Short, an effervescent TV and film comic making his Broadway debut. So potent was the combination that a year in advance, industry leaders pegged the show to sweep the Tonys...
...resurrected at Houston's Theater Under the Stars. Yeston's melodies often skim the roiling emotions Lloyd Webber's music swims in, but they are sophisticated show tunes, operatic and operettic by turns. Kopit balances the Phantom-Christine romance with an All About Eve , rivalry between Christine and the diva Carlotta, then a Star Wars father-and- son relationship in Act II, when the play finds its heart. The production is suave, intimate -- a glittering bauble to Lloyd Webber's grand chandelier...