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...great concept. It's a great script. It even spawned a great screen adaptation with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. Do yourself a favor and rent the video. Don't bother forking over sixty dollars at the Wilbur Theater, where Wait is waiting out its pre-Broadway run. Director Leonard Foglia's half-hearted stage rendering has its moments, but the production as a whole hovers somewhere between mediocrity and patent ineptitude...
...California's La Jolla Playhouse last year and will resurface Sept. 30 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. (Look for long, circular conversations between Faust and the devil.) Terrence McNally (Master Class) is tackling the book for Ragtime, a musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, which begins a pre-Broadway run in Toronto in December. And Britain's prolific Alan Ayckbourn (Absurd Person Singular; Woman in Mind) wrote the book for and is directing a revamped version of By Jeeves, based on the P.G. Wodehouse character, at Connecticut's Goodspeed-at-Chester theater. The musical was a flop back...
...past 20 years regionals have tried doing it themselves. Goodspeed's launching of Shenandoah and Annie encouraged California's La Jolla Playhouse (Big River, The Who's Tommy, Randy Newman's Faust) and Houston's Theatre Under the Stars (co-producer of Jekyll & Hyde, now on a pre-Broadway tour...
...characters tell rather than show; Randall spells out, "This change in appearance has somehow changed the inner man." In impeding the otherwise rich evolution of plot and character with soapbox monologues, Face Value underestimates its audience. Hopefully, much of the speechifying will be cut as Face Value continues its pre-Broadway engagement at the Colonial Theatre, so that nothing detracts from the attention the plot and characters deserve...
Their venture, New Musicals, is scheduled to mount some 16 shows during the next four years for pre-Broadway test runs at the State University of New York campus at Purchase, 30 miles from New York City. The facilities can accommodate the elaborate staging that audiences expect on Broadway. But in contrast to traditional pre-Broadway tours, these tryouts will enjoy financial concessions from virtually everyone onstage or backstage. A show that could cost $5 million will be mounted there for about $1.5 million. If it moves to Broadway, salaries and royalties will jump to normal levels. If not, losses...