Word: operatice
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Then came the two-minute moment of silence (broken once by an inadvertent bell) and the Marine woman singing "God Bless America" in an operatic tremolo, and finally, at 9:34, the bells dinged, Grasso beamed, and the stock market was back from the ashes.
Whereas Larson's show is sweet and cuddly, Urinetown is blunt and in your face. This Brechtian fable--a sellout hit in its tiny off-off-Broadway theater that is moving to Broadway in August--is set in a city where the water shortage is so dire that private toilets...
Because, make no mistake, the man was acting. Unlike his braying, spluttering character, O'Connor was born in the Bronx but his real voice was no Bronx cheer; he was soft-spoken and thoughtful and said that he never heard Archie Bunkerisms growing up in his well-off childhood home...
For the real-life Broadway crowd, The Producers is a gift from the show-biz gods. For years, most of the street's big musical hits have been operatic British imports. The Lion King was a great homegrown boost, but Disney and Julie Taymor were, and still are, outsiders. The...
Likewise with the musical numbers. There wasn't the bombastic excess of the past. But there wasn't much of anything else to replace it. The one strong number of the night was unadorned but nonetheless weird: Bjork, doing the eerie "I've Seen It All" from "Dancer in the...