Word: melnick
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Responsibility must ultimately lie on Simon's shoulders Kulyenchikov is a reworking of an earher Simon Play, Fools a failure when it first apperaed warned Peter Melnick and pat Pattison (Melnick is a student. Pattison a professor at Berklee College of Music) the creative team behind the revised version apparently thought that a musical treatment would improve Simon's initial effort. But their adaptation, while well-intentioned is not enough. Dressing a dog a Pavarotti will not prevent it form howling...
...musical scores for "The Winter's Tale" were written by Peter R. Melnick, a student at the Berklee College of Music. He and Warner have worked together in the past and are currently collaborating on an adaption of Neil Simon's "Fools," which will be performed at Harvard this month
...moguls can recall the heady months following Saturday Night Fever. The studios scrambled to duplicate that film's success and came up with such box-office flops as FM, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Says Footloose Executive Producer Daniel Melnick: "If you don't have a picture the audience really enjoys, you could have 100 hours a week on MTV and it wouldn't help." On the other hand, Hollywood seems to be reasoning, it can't hurt. -By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York...
...Warner's version, occult occurrences are almost taken for granted--they appear in almost every scene. But the significance of these scenes is cheapened by Warner's reliance on flashy costumes, anachronistic props, and the original music by Peter Melnick. These external ornaments overshadow the plot, and the three-and-a-half-hour production gathers most of its strength from the attempt to destroy our conceptions of how a Shakespeare play should be performed...
Composer Peter Melnick adds a fun polish to Savage/Love, providing hummable original scores for the little bit of singing and making the band a sort of character by its intrusions among the lines and occasional interaction with WOMAN. Savage/Love is a poetic dialogue about the nuts and bolts of human relationships; the performance at the Nucleo Eclettico theater captures all its beautiful bitter/sweetness...