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...usual, some of the best characters have little to do with the plot. Brian Martin does a terrific job as Tess Pattern, a wovewy journalist with a speech impediment. She and Tab Lloyd (Andrew Howard), a 15th-century Geraldo Rivera-Maury Povich type, dig away at the sleazy side of the kingdom, threatening to broadcast everyone's dirty laundry. (Political Subtext...
...Andrew Lloyd Webber created a phenomenal hit. The composer's lush, legerdemainic Phantom of the Opera has played to SRO houses since it opened in London (October 1986) and on Broadway (January 1988), with Michael Crawford as the Phantom and Sarah Brightman as his beloved Christine. The Los Angeles company will conclude a record-breaking four-year run this summer...
...Hill's Phantom of the Opera. First produced in England in 1976, this comic melodrama had a book by Hill and a score by Ian Armit. In 1984 Hill dropped the original music and wrote new lyrics to arias by Gounod, Offenbach, Verdi, Mozart and Donizetti. Lloyd Webber considered producing an embellished version of it, then decided to do his own. Thank heavens. Hill's backstage farce is a kind of Noises Off without the wit, and the cast plays it as hammy gaslight farce -- a penny dreadful that at today's prices plays like a $32.50 dreadful. It alights...
Phantom. Yeston (music and lyrics) and Kopit (book) completed their version in 1985, but when Lloyd Webber announced his Phantom, they found it tough to raise money. Kopit and Lloyd Webber briefly discussed collaborating, but their visions of the Phantom didn't mesh. The Yeston-Kopit version was dead for nearly six years, then miraculously resurrected at Houston's Theater Under the Stars. Yeston's melodies often skim the roiling emotions Lloyd Webber's music swims in, but they are sophisticated show tunes, operatic and operettic by turns. Kopit balances the Phantom-Christine romance with an All About Eve , rivalry...
BACKDOWNS AND DELAYS Some tax boosts once widely talked about will not appear in the Clinton program. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski and other veterans of the bloody inheritance-tax wars of the 1970s successfully counseled the Administration not to fight that battle again. Clinton's aides found that eliminating mortgage-interest deductions for second homes would hit hard at many people who are decidedly not rich. "It turns out after you study it that a lot of autoworkers have cabins in Michigan," says a presidential assistant. Instead, the Administration is likely...