Word: hytner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clamoring for Wheeldon's crowd-pleasing yet intelligently crafted ballets. This summer he'll be making his first dance for the San Francisco Ballet and his second, a new version of Stravinsky's Firebird, for the Boston Ballet, as well as working on a dance-themed film by Nicholas Hytner (The Object of My Affection). "If a company calls and I have the time," he says cheerily, "I'll do it." There's just one catch: if they want somebody trendy, they'll have to call somebody else. "Ballet has to move forward, yes, but it doesn't have...
Helen Hunt, garlanded with Oscars and Emmys, plays Viola in Nicholas Hytner's production; but the show's real star is Crowley. He has joined the short list of masters in a fertile era for stage designers. Such wizards of pencil and paint as Tony Walton (Guys and Dolls), Robin Wagner (Crazy for You), John Napier (Cats) and Heidi Ettinger (The Secret Garden) create unique worlds from a playwright's words and a director's hopes. When you leave a show "humming the sets," these are the folks to thank for those sumptuous visual melodies...
...three new Broadway shows: Twelfth Night, the Oscar Wilde bio-play The Judas Kiss and Paul Simon's The Capeman. Amid the rubble of Capeman's reviews, Crowley earned praise for his expressionistic perspectives of uptown tenements and upstate jails. He is now at work on four projects, including Hytner's film of the show Chicago (with Madonna and Goldie Hawn); a London revival of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, directed by Crowley's younger brother John; and a Disney stage musical loosely based on The Invisible Man. There's a Bob boom on: he is the guy everyone...
...Hytner, the first of this generation of Brit boy-wonder directors, says he wouldn't have done Carousel or Twelfth Night without Crowley. "Bob's aesthetic is mine as well: that a theater world should be poetic, a world of the imagination; that it should be hospitable to actors; that it should be bold in the use of colors." That would account for the glorious pools, and the pathways that slide together at the end to bring the lovers together. As Hytner says, "We are also both totally shameless about feeling that now and then you have to give...
...Twelfth Night, Crowley and Hytner visited the Asian galleries at museums in New York City and London; they studied Japanese watercolors. Since the production was to run for only 10 warm-weather weeks, they decided to give New York a lovely present: a midsummer, Mideastern night's dream. "We said, 'Let's make a great place to go on a hot evening,'" he recalls, "a space with seductive sights and sounds and smells, where you could suspend your disbelief and go with this fantastical tale. It'd be there for just a couple of months--and then evaporate...