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...year it certainly isn't is 1993. In this season of multitudinous musical revivals, even the upcoming "new" musicals derive from the dear dead past. A Grand Night for Singing is a cabaret collage of the 1943-to-1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook. The Red Shoes is so closely based on the 1948 ballet film that it uses footage from it as the basis of TV ads. Cyrano the Musical, an import from Amsterdam, retells a much told romance, written in the 19th century and set in the 17th. Disney's Beauty and the Beast will transpose to the stage...
This may well be as much attention to blacks as Broadway audiences would allow in 1927, but today the narrative defects of Oscar Hammerstein II's book are too glaring for Prince's razzmatazz to overcome. At best the script is a faint and fractured ghost of Edna Ferber's overstuffed novel. At worst it is a herky-jerky alternation of melodramatic vignettes yanked out of context and escapist bursts of clowning and dance...
...BROADWAY MUSICAL HAS INFLUENCED the form more than Oklahoma!, which integrated songs and dances into narrative. Its debut 50 years ago this month launched the partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, who went on to Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. Their words and music are lovingly recalled in A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING, a revue at New York City's premier cabaret, Rainbow & Stars. The show is one of hundreds of ways the anniversary is being marked -- from productions, concerts, CDs and books to a museum show of set designs...
Watson and Crick. Their names, like those of Lewis and Clark, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Stanley and Livingstone, are enshrined in tandem. Yet a few years after their epochal discovery, the men -- James Dewey Watson and Francis Harry Compton Crick -- began to drift apart. Though they have remained in touch -- except for a cooling-off period after Crick took exception to some of the material in Watson's best-selling book, The Double Helix -- they have seldom met in recent years...
...OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN...