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...This Mitchell was the author, lyricist and star of the off-Broadway hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Here, his structuring of the material is less like a hard-core film, more like a musical. There are songs throughout, though Mitchell didn't write them, and the production numbers have a geometrical elegance and absurdity that suggests a porno Busby Berkeley. And when the movie finally ends (it has more tie-up-the-plot scenes than The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), everybody's back at the salon, singing the anthemic...
...Catholic upbringing for inspiration. Perhaps most notably, he did it again in 1981’s “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You.” The play earned him the prestigious Obie Award, a prize bestowed by New York newspaper The Village Voice to off-Broadway productions. It was also condemned by the Cardinal of Boston.“When you’re taught all these rules, you really accept things as fact,” Durang says of Catholic school and “Sister Mary...
...musical theater community came when he co-wrote “Get Some,” the 2003 Freshman Musical. He then went on to co-write “As the Word Turns” for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. With his co-writing of the off-Broadway “Snapshots” during his sophomore summer, Mitnick drew new ideas and icons into the language of musical theater. Mitnick later spent two summers working for Tony Award winner Stephen Flaherty, the composer for “Ragtime.” From the Currier House musical...
There's creative conflict and there's just ... conflict. Theater actress JAN MAXWELL quit the off-Broadway play Entertaining Mr. Sloane weeks before its May 21 close because, she told the New York Post, her co-star ALEC BALDWIN "created an unhealthy and oppressive situation." She cited Baldwin's punching a wall when the air conditioning wasn't high enough. "Jan was miserable from the start," Baldwin, who acknowledged the wall punching, told TIME. "If you only work with people who are warm and sunny, you're not gonna work much...
...ABBY LOCKHART In Neil LaBute's off-Broadway black comedy Some Girl(s), with Eric McCormack, opening in May, Maura Tierney plays the girl who got away--a nice change from Abby, the girl who got to intubate...