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Back when the Rat Pack ruled, Jackie Mason played Vegas and Edward Albee was on Broadway. Today essentially idea-free spectacle -- The Phantom of the Opera, Cats -- dominates New York City's so-called legitimate theater, and stand-up comedy is ubiquitous. In the '90s, Friars Club comedians like Mason have hit Broadway shows, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical Starlight Express has been permanently installed in the showroom of the Las Vegas Hilton. The crossbreeding seems complete...
...London the forgotten silent-film star Norma Desmond skulked around her overdecorated mansion like a female Phantom of the Opera, remote and unreachable. In Los Angeles, even as she rages like a deranged diva, she shows endearing glints of awareness of her own tawdry emotional blackmail. A single image encapsulates the difference. When London's Norma, Patti LuPone, got her seedy protege back, by a suicide attempt, she collapsed into his arms in maudlin gratitude. The Los Angeles incarnation, Glenn Close, ends the act by lifting her bandaged arms above his embracing form, her fingers curving like talons to take...
...wellspring of stories and concepts. But almost none of the hit Broadway musicals of the past decade have been turned into a movie. Indeed, the east- west flow of material has rather suddenly reversed itself -- movies now turn into Broadway spectacles. La Cage aux Folles, 42nd Street and The Phantom of the Opera were films first and stage shows second, as were both of this season's big hits, Tommy (essentially a set of music videos performed live) and Kiss of the Spider Woman. And what are some of the big musicals about to arrive on Broadway? The Red Shoes...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Silvia and the Phantom"at 5:30 p.m. An adolescent girl who lives in anold castle fully believes herself in love with theresident ghost. "Perfumed Nightmare" at7:30 p.m. A semi-autobiographical fable by a youngPhilippino about his awakening to, and reactionagainst, American cultural colonialism. "JamesBroughton and Sidney Peterson...
SPECTATOR: The Phantom Deal...