Word: mamet
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...Randy Newman's Faust. The Lord (Ken Page) and the devil (David Garrison) face off once again, this time singing Newman's wonderfully tuneful score. In its second stage incarnation, at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, the musical still has book problems (despite help from David Mamet), and could use some Broadway-class choreography, but it's great...
...Written (HarperSanFrancisco), his collection of essays by writers and poets, he contends that contemporary authors are better qualified than Bible experts to explicate what he sees primarily as a secular masterpiece. Indeed, both Phillip Lopate's disconcerting contribution about playing Abraham in an Abraham-Sarah-Pharaoh triangle and David Mamet's Freudian riff on the Flood make for enjoyable reading. But Rosenberg's thesis is sorely tested by The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis (Image), a wonderful book by Living Conversation participant and Orthodox Midrash expert Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg. Her chapter on the Flood beats Mamet's hands down...
...DOING" MAMET...
Scott Zigler, who will direct the world premiere of David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood at the A.R.T. this year, will present an open rehearsal of a scene from the play, followed by a discussion...
Rent may or may not have revolutionized the Broadway musical, but the form certainly is attracting some interesting playwrights. David Mamet is helping revamp the book for Randy Newman's Faust, which made its debut to much fanfare at California's La Jolla Playhouse last year and will resurface Sept. 30 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. (Look for long, circular conversations between Faust and the devil.) Terrence McNally (Master Class) is tackling the book for Ragtime, a musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, which begins a pre-Broadway run in Toronto in December. And Britain's prolific Alan Ayckbourn...