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Barbara got an unexpected hug from Andre Agassi when the Bushes dropped in on the U.S. Open tennis tournament. Both were startled when they went to a Hairspray matinee and received a rousing welcome, even from the cast backstage. In the spirit of the day, they pronounced it a great play...
...Shows close; that?s life and death upon the wicked stage. But do shows open in the hot weather? Not ever. No, never. (Well, hardly ever. ?Hairspray? came to town two Augusts ago and has done nicely.) So if you?re in search of innovative, often inspiring theater instead of Broadway?s summer reruns, get thee to London. I did, a while back, and had an exalting time. Though all the plays I saw were set in the past, many had a modern relevance...
...stream of consciousness - in a club, on his own, taking his first ecstasy pill of the night: "Right, I'm going to plan/ I wish the bouncers would go away/ Borrow water off this man/ Here goes nothing, O.K./ And I'm thinking, 'That's proper rank'/ Tastes like hairspray". The nervy excitement of a first date in Could Well Be In is portrayed with a tenderness that softens the lack of couth: "I saw this thing on ITV the other week/ It said if she plays with her hair then she's probably keen/ She's playing with...
...million musical with no stars, a score by a composer famous in most of the world (see box, below) but not in the U.S., and a story set in the Bollywood milieu unknown to Broadway's conservative audience. Producer Andrew Lloyd Webber hired writer Thomas Meehan (The Producers, Hairspray) to cut a lot of in-jokes, pump up the mother love--domesticate the Bollywood beast. Will the transplant work? The show has a $6 million advance; and at a preview last week, the audience, perhaps 25% South Asian, seemed to love the infectious songs and rain-drenched dancing. So salaam...
...Donnell, who calls his partnership with Meehan "an arranged marriage but happily a loving one," is similarly inclined to repeat their Hairspray success. The two men have completed an outline for a musical based on Waters' Cry-Baby, a 1990 film starring Johnny Depp as a bad boy wooing a good girl. Other possibilities for the writing team: a musical version of The Addams Family film and a film version of the musical Hairspray...