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...tested blue-chip talents. After all, no other musical can boast a T.S. Eliot as its lyricist, so to speak. Even if Eliot was playfully doodling for his godchildren and friends in his 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, took Broadway's breath away last season with their monumental Nicholas Nickleby. And at age 34, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has achieved the unprecedented feat of having three musicals playing simultaneously...
...German masterpieces. It turns out that Nabokov knew a great deal more about Russian literature than about any other. Certainly he is more comfortable in this second volume. He is still, as always, petulant, self-indulgent, and pompous, and since Nabokov insists upon his own status in the Pantheon of literature--which was not so obvious when he was writing these lectures--he has made a conspicuous target of himself...
Lore Segal is responsible for fluent translations of such fairy tales. Her original composition shows how closely she has studied the source. In her folkloric The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck (Pantheon; $8.95), the protagonist is the kind of grandmother who makes worry a vocation. She finds trouble everywhere in and under the bed, around the house, in the yard, until she makes a life-altering discovery. The reason why trouble is so clinging and so dark is that it is a shadow closely resembling the klutzy figure of one Mrs. Brubeck. Marcia Sewall's illustrations provide precisely...
FUNERAL GAMES by Mary Renault; Pantheon; 335 pages...
...world has had a revue and they finally got to the bottom of the barrel," he says) and the show, with its cast of four, is coming to New York in December. He also has published a new collection of his songs called Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer (Pantheon; $16.50), with improved piano arrangements and two songs that he wrote for public television's Electric Company...