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...Broadway premiere in 1957, the city-gritty updating of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Composer Leo nard Bernstein, Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Choreographer Jerome Robbins was hailed as much for its quasi-operatic score as for its savvy lyrics and explosive, streetwise dances. Now comes a new Deutsche Grammophon recording, conducted by the composer, that makes the show's higher musical aspirations unabashedly explicit...
Here comes Chess, the biggest new musical hit of the international theater season. A colorful satiric pageant about the political and romantic gamesmanship attending a world chess championship, the show has won raves from European critics for Lyricist Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita), Composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA) and the piece's star, Elaine Paige. Chess has spun off two top-of-the-pops singles: the ballad I Know Him So Well resided at No. 1 in Britain for four weeks, and the insinuating disco rap One Night in Bangkok...
...Boheme, sung in a flip, funny new English version by Lyricist David Spencer, is no Pirates-sized smash, but its opening night last week, in Papp's tiny Anspacher Theater, was a modest, almost bashful, success. This is petit opera, not grand, but there is a clear gain in warmth and intimacy at the level of drama. The singers use body mikes instead of heroic rib cages and Pavarottal diaphragms, but they are young and good-looking, and they have no trouble seeming appropriately broke and love-sopped (nor in delivering Spencer's sometimes jarring lines...
DIED. Arthur Schwartz, 83, Broadway and Hollywood composer who with his chief lyricist, the late Howard Dietz, wrote some of the most sophisticated show tunes of the '30s, including Dancing in the Dark, Something to Remember You By, You and the Night and the Music, By Myself, and later, and perhaps most memorably, the show-biz anthem That's Entertainment;'m Kintnersville...
...Story to such instant-nostalgia items as Peg (a new show based on the 1912 J. Hartley Manners comedy) and Singin' in the Rain (with aging sprite Tommy Steele in the Gene Kelly role). The big noise, though, comes from two dueling musicals. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice, once the Midas men of British songwriting with the shows Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Evita, have separated and are parading their new collaborators before London playgoers...