Word: gemignani
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...well, by The Drowsy Chaperone. Rando festoons John Lee Beatty's balconied set with streamers, packs the stage with sight gags and sex appeal - 10 gals in bathing suits, courted by boys with press cards in their hat bands. The cast and orchestra, under the vigorous baton of Paul Gemignani, rise to the material, then skate on it. Garber does justice to one of the all-time rousing musical-comedy lines, "Did you say corn muffins?" (Mary had won his heart by revealing she makes the best corn muffins. When they reach the White House, Mary says she'll bake...
...PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (MCA). The cat's meow: Paul Gemignani and the Royal Philharmonic Pops step lively through starlit arrangements of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megamusicals...
Frenzy of Remorse. Away from his public, Puccini was a painfully shy man, given to periods of black depression accentuated by a stormy family life. He had met Elvira Gemignani when he was 26, lured her away from her husband (and Puccini's old school chum), had a child by her. He married her 19 years later when her husband died. Their affair fluctuated between periods of passionate affection ("little mouse," he called her) and her storms of insane jealousy. Once he was famous, Puccini had a string of affairs with his more shapely Mimis, Musettas and Butterflys...
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