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Still, last week's opening of a new revival of West Side Story - the first on Broadway since 1980 - gave me the rare opportunity of encountering an American musical classic in the way, by rights, every show ought to be encountered: as if for the first time. No memories of...
In this new production, directed by Arthur Laurents - author of the original book and now 91 years old - the story is what seems least compelling. Partly this is due to the competent but bland cast. As Tony, leader of the Anglo gang the Jets, Matt Cavenaugh is an attractive, sweet...
But some of the fault, I think, lies in the original script, which might be hefty enough for a sung-through opera but here seems too thin to live up to its ambitions. I don't expect a stage musical about street gangs to have the grit or nuance of...
Yes, but what about that glorious score? Well, this time around, it doesn't sound all that glorious. I count 28 musicians listed in the program, but the orchestra sounded both undermanned and overmiked, sometimes drowning out the singers; in a couple of the early numbers, I couldn't be...
The plan has three parts. Most people have focused on the first part, which is run by the reliable Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and about which Geithner provided the most detail on Monday. It covers not the complex bundled loans that have received much attention in the media but...