Word: librettos
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...especially for the ART. He found Eckert, an award winning composer and lyricist who had already had several successes in New York and San Francisco and was already very well known in contemporary music circles. The two then worked on expanding Eckert’s original piece, adding a libretto as well as a plot. After reading George Lord’s work about The Odyssey’s impact on modern society, Woodruff noticed the parallels between his own story and Homer’s classic...
...director of the Berlin Philharmonic, and renowned director Trevor Nunn. With top tickets selling at a third of the normal Covent Garden top price of $240, the six performances of Sophie's Choice sold out immediately. Maw's first exposure to Sophie's Choice was the film, but his libretto is almost completely faithful to Styron's prose. So, he says, is his music. "It follows the rhythm and the emotional line of the text very closely. The way I would describe a lot of the music is 'lyric conversation.'" Some critics have faulted Maw for allowing the conversation...
...history has no culmination! There is always as much in front as behind. There is no libretto. History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. ... We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us. ... What kind of beast is this ... this Moloch who promises us that everything will be beautiful after we're dead? A distant end is not an end but a trap. The end we work for must be closer: the labourer's wage, the pleasure in the work done, the summer lightning of personal happiness...
...musical theater's last megahit. The Nathan Lane starrer, which opened in April 2001, was also the first show in ages to break the unwritten 20-year rule for Broadway shows: be dramatic, tragic if possible, and always brown. Mel Brooks, who wrote the score and co-wrote the libretto from his fondly-recalled old film, reminded theatergoers that there used to be something, a very agreeable thing, called "musical comedy" - emphasis on the comedy. Audiences devoured "The Producers" like the first spoonful of chocolate sundae after Yom Kippur. If the show wasn't quite the laugh-till-you-break...
...handful of English concentrators get selected each year to write creative theses. Some write poetry, others essays, and a few try their hand at fiction. But Joe C. Gfaller ’01 did what no one had done: he wrote a musical. Last year he composed the lyrics, libretto and music for a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. And as if that were not an adequate project, he also wrote a 45-page justification of adaptation and the nature of narrative. “I purported a theory of means through which a story...