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...schizoid staging reflects director Howard Davies' determination to do something new vs. the insistence of the estate of librettist-lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on replicating the 1956 staging. Most impiously, Davies hints that Eliza leaves Higgins forever, as in Shaw's Pygmalion. That idea fights the musical's text and, indeed, its boy-meets-girl form. The text and form win the brawl. But nothing in this show is close to a knockout...
...film was shot during eight weeks in Los Angeles, and more than half the soundtrack was recorded live rather than added in a studio. At the end of seven weeks of rehearsal, the company mounted the show on a soundstage for the original show's prime mover, librettist Arthur Laurents. "That was the scariest thing we did," Midler recalls. "It was like performing for God. At the end, he was very, very thrilled. That was the high point of the whole production." Maybe so for Midler. For America's once and, one hopes, future fans of the musical, the high...
When the musical The Red Shoes nudged aside its director, lyricist and librettist and dumped star Roger Rees, Broadway wags dubbed it The Lead Shoes, Dead Shoes or Pink Slips. Opening is postponed to Dec. 16. What next -- The Cement Boots...
...divergence from the film in Carver's performance is typical. Hardly anyone involved with the musical admits to having liked the movie or to having studied it during the years of revision. Prince dismisses it as "a glamorous trick." The style he sought, along with Kander, Ebb and librettist Terrence McNally, was the magic realism of Latin American fiction, in which everyday behavior lurches into the weird. If there was a screen influence, Prince says, it was Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, a TV miniseries that hopscotched among layers of reality and expected audiences to get their bearings gradually...
...MEEHAN, THE LIBRETTIST OF ANNIE, describes his latest effort as "a brand- new 1948 musical." He means that AIN'T BROADWAY GRAND, which opened last week on the Great White Way, is a deliberate throwback to the aesthetic described in one of its lyrics as "tall dames and low comedy." Full of loud and tuneful music, skimpy costumes, tireless dancers, ageless baggy-pants comics, chutzpah and pizazz, the show celebrates the life and craft of producer Mike Todd, a dime-store Ziegfeld best remembered these days as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's eight husbands. That biographical fact...