Word: mcglinn
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...Teresa Stratas (Julie) and Jerry Hadley (Ravenal), as well as a cameo appearance by Lillian Gish as the Lady on the Levee, this Show Boat aims high. "Show Boat was thought of as a dusty operetta, but it is really a moving piece of music drama," says conductor John McGlinn, 35, whose passion for the score drove him to record the Mississippi riverboat musical in its complete 1927 version. McGlinn restored the overture, reinstating three important ensemble numbers and, most controversially, insisting on Hammerstein's original dialogue, which includes use of the word nigger. The result is a Show Boat...
Broadway shows, however, do not have to be cast with opera stars to be taken seriously. What they have to be first is respected. "There are great theater pieces of the teens, '20s and '30s that don't exist in performable form," laments McGlinn. "If a show closed out of town, the scores could be thrown out on the last night. A lot of pre-Oklahoma! Rodgers and Hart, Porter and Kern shows are gone forever. We're trying to reclaim from oblivion all the work of America's greatest writers and composers...
...musical: Zip! Goes a Million. Best actress: Judy Kaye as the Gay Nineties chanteuse in Sweet Adeline. Best supporting actress: Jane Connell as the inebriated Quaker aunt in Oh, Boy! Best eccentric dance: Mia Dillon for her daft balloon ballet in Music in the Air. Best orchestrations: John McGlinn for Leave It to Jane. Best book and lyrics: Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse for Oh, Lady! Lady! Best composer: Jerome Kern, for all of the above...
...Alan McGlinn Webb...
...supporting cast works with the same attention to comic detail that enlivened Epstein's baroque production of A Midsummer Night's Dream last year. William McGlinn's mincing music teacher. Thomas Derrah's stuttering judge, Chris Clemenson's lumbering clerk and Albert Duclos' staggering, alcoholic gardener together cover the entire spectrum of sycophancy...