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...many times you can do The Sound of Music," McConnell says. "At the festival we show how to develop a successful musical without the Broadway imprimatur." Last year Alliance theaters mounted 44 productions of new musicals. "The only hope of getting something done on Broadway," says veteran librettist Joe Masteroff (Cabaret, She Loves Me), "is to have it produced first in regional theaters. The festival is a chance to have all the regional people see it at once...
AUTHORS: MUSIC BY JERRY BOCK; LYRICS BY SHELDON HARNICK; BOOK BY JOE MASTEROFF...
...write passionate letters without | any idea that they know -- and despise -- each other. In daily life they are dull and ordinary. Setting pen to paper, they are romantic dreamers. They stand for the poetic souls we all believe lie hidden within us. With the help of Joe Masteroff's witty book, Sheldon Harnick's playful lyrics and the winsome performances of Boyd Gaines and Judy Kuhn, they are also completely believable people doing fetchingly silly things...
...musical of all time. Hal Prince's fluid, expressionistic staging has been so widely imitated that even its slyest devices seem cliched. Although the show's political anthems and music- hall satires throb with emotion, its love ballads are mostly lame -- a weakness that has been heightened by Joe Masteroff's miscalculated rewrite of his own book. Clifford (Gregg Edelman), the American novelist who arrives in Berlin as the Nazis are coming to power and through whom the story is told, is now unmistakably homosexual. His affair with the hoydenish singer Sally Bowles (Alyson Reed) has no chance of changing...
Book by JOE MASTEROFF Music by JERRY BOCK Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK