Word: raposo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WONDERFUL LIFE. Joe Raposo, composer of Sing and much of Sesame Street, left a trove of musicals-in-the-making at his death in 1989. This remake of the Frank Capra-Jimmy Stewart film classic It's a Wonderful Life, at Washington's Arena Stage, is as sweet and gosh-darn inspirational as the original. But Sheldon Harnick's book and, especially, lyrics wobble embarrassingly in tone, and the storytelling transition from screen to stage is much less than magical...