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...Beyond that, it seems to me that we have been too often in these classrooms, once again asked to be amused by restless lads and to admire their odd-ball teacher. But director Nicholas Hytner's film version of a play everyone thought was "cinematic? (mostly because it contained some film pieces) is an improvement on the original. It has a flow and an intimacy that the often awkward theatrical version lacked. And it employs the same cast that played it in London and New York and the relatively minor changes Bennett has made in adapting it to the screen...
...NICHOLAS HYTNER by Richard Zoglin...
...possibly this is not Bach. Instead, it is British theater's most talked-about new project: Jerry Springer - The Opera, which opens on April 29. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh and the Royal Opera House were all reportedly vying to produce it, but it was National Theatre boss Nicholas Hytner who won out, staging the show during the first season of his directorship. It may seem perverse to take a trashy American TV talk show, on which guests with bizarre emotional problems routinely yell at and brawl with each other, and turn it into opera. Opera is still widely perceived...
...seen it as a young person and was passionate about it," says Richards. When a revival of Chicago opened on Broadway in 1996 and became a huge hit, that passion was put into action. Madonna and Goldie Hawn were originally attached to star. But when director Nicholas Hytner (The Crucible) came aboard in 1999, he suggested that Hawn was too old for the part of the ingenue Roxie, and Weinstein bought out her contract for an estimated $1 million...
Various writers tried unsuccessfully to adapt Chicago for the screen, and Hytner eventually dropped out. Madonna also moved on, and Chicago languished until 2000, when Rob Marshall--a former Broadway choreographer who had directed Annie on television--came up with a new concept. The show would be reshaped so that all the musical numbers would take place as elaborate vaudeville routines in the dreamy imagination of Roxie. "The hardest part about musicals is that scary moment when characters start to sing," says Marshall, who recruited screenwriter Bill Condon (Oscar winner for 1998's Gods and Monsters) to write the script...