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DIED. BEAH RICHARDS, 74, Oscar-nominated actress who this month won an Emmy for a guest appearance on The Practice; of emphysema; in Vicksburg, Miss. Richards received her Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. A poet, playwright and minister's daughter, she once said, "I always relate the theater to the church... Like the church, the theater must always be an exploration for truth...
...ever since. If you beatify him now, there will be a whitewashing of him, which will involve the church in more dishonesty." Pius is the heavy in the well-reviewed The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, by Brown University historian David Kertzer, which is being adapted for Broadway by playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy). Even the author of the definitive, three-volume Pius biography, Jesuit historian Giacomo Martina, does not favor his subject for sainthood...
...many jolly musicals in this dour Broadway age, but this fall there are two. Seussical is joined by The Full Monty, based on the hit Brit film about blue-collar guys who try to make a few bob as strippers. David Yazbek (from TV) and playwright Terrence McNally wrote the show. There's also an old-fashioned sweeping romance: a Jane Eyre from pop balladeer Paul Gordon and some of the folks behind Les Miserables. All you composers working on more versions of Martin Guerre and The Wild Party can put them aside. The musical is perking up. Broadway might...
...Walking, with superstar mezzo Susan Graham as Sister Helen Prejean, the spiritual adviser who brings salvation to a death-row inmate, the role for which Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award. The score is by Jake Heggie, a gifted purveyor of bittersweet art songs, and the libretto is by playwright-opera buff Terrence McNally (The Lisbon Traviata, Love! Valour! Compassion!). Will this brand-name opera be agitprop or art--or both? Whatever the results, the timing of the premiere at the War Memorial Opera House on Oct. 7, less than two months after Texas' controversial double execution, could scarcely...
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, 1966 Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain starred in a musical based on the hit film. Playwright Edward Albee rewrote the script to no avail. Producer David Merrick closed it in previews, but joked, "Cartier's wanted me to keep it open to damage Tiffany...