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...inspire potent works of art depicting the struggle of the helpless individual against the demonic forces of the prosecution. The theme is tailor-made for exciting, socially significant theatre and cinema. When done well, the result is a deeply moving classic of the modern stage like Man of La Mancha or The Crucible; when done poorly, the result is a screen disaster like The Front...
...Goodspeed Opera House of East Haddam, Conn., has become a breeding ground for Broadway hits. In recent years, Man of La Mancha, Shenandoah and Very Good Eddie originated there. Although it is not really up to its predecessors, Going Up may continue the string. This is a sappy but ingratiating musical profile of a writer turned aviator who wins the socialite of his heart's desire by his daring handling of the joystick of a 1919 biplane...
Imagine a somewhat insecure Bertolt Brecht writing a kind of Man of La Mancha about Maxim Gorky, the Russian Revolution and its after math. Add to this some of the folk flavor of Fiddler on the Roof and you get a rough approximation of what a strange and ambitious amalgam is represented by this musical now at Manhattan's American Place Theater...
...deafening groans. The groans may be distinguished from the songs easily: the songs have words. Those lyrics, which act upon the mind like nepenthe, are also by Segal, a classics scholar who is driving without a poetic license. The music proves again that Composer Mitch Leigh (Man of La Mancha) is a man of parts-part Leonard Bernstein, part Tchaikovsky, part '40s movie scores...
...winning critical notice as a smooth, sensitive operatic lead in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 1948, sang the title roles in Tales of Hoffmann and the original production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and headlined as the padre in Man of La Mancha; of a heart attack; in his studio in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...