Word: evita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Evita earned $27 million during its two-year run at the Shubert; Peter Pan, which plays in a former movie house, the Pantages, made $482,706, a local record, in the week ending Jan. 3; the Wilshire has just reopened after refurbishing with A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. Yet producers of smaller plays, some of them by California playwrights, occasionally find it harder to locate theaters than audiences. William Bushnell, producing director of the L.A. Actors Theater, had no trouble filling his 174-seat house with Frank South's Two by South. But when he tried...
...disease; in Danbury, Conn. The son of Russian immigrants, Kay started his career in 1944 orchestrating On the Town, the first Broadway musical of his friend Leonard Bernstein. They later collaborated on Candide (1956 and 1973) and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976). Kay had three shows currently playing on Broadway: Evita, A Chorus Line and Barnum. Several of his best scores were musical Americana commissioned by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet, and include Cakewalk (1951), Western Symphony (1954) and Stars and Stripes...
With such material, who could go wrong? Probably lots of people, but Webber and Rice are not among them. They have not aimed so high as they did in their later Jesus Christ Superstar or Evita, but compared with those hits Joseph is better rounded, more buoyant and totally unpretentious. Despite its several transformations and elongations, it retains the child like wonder that it must have had when it was performed by children...
...septameter that served lyricists from Gilbert to Kipling to Lear. The challenge to Lloyd Webber was to compose a score that did not sound like outtakes from The Pirates of Penzance. Because of this metrical restriction, Lloyd Webber could not have matched the profligate melodiousness of his score for Evita if he had tried. He has not; he works mostly in the loud Europop vein, hurling his listeners up against the caterwaul...
...penned a splendid processional, all pomp and circumference, for Brian Blessed as Old Deuteronomy, the group's sage and patriarch. For Elaine Paige, who was the original West End Evita and here plays a tattered cat of the evening named Grizabella, Lloyd Webber wrote the show's first hit single, a melancholy bolero called Memory...