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Joel did eventually come back as if recharged by the music itself and took the audience up to new heights. The latter half of the show featured Joel at his classic best. In an amazingly heartfelt "Goodnight Saigon," Joel recaptured his previous energy. (And when, due to a technical glitch, Joel's piano failed to rise from the pit onto the stage, he simply jumped down and played from below...
...aspects of our Skirmish with Substances are worthwhile; such as making it a extra-special crime to sell drugs to schoolchildren. Of course, when the schoolchildren try to sell drugs to you, this may be a hint about the state of the war just as leaving the embassy in Saigon was a hint that maybe the war in Vietnam wasn't going so well...
...Bennett, known in the U.S. mainly for such minimalist video dramas as An Englishman Abroad with Alan Bates and Talking Heads with Maggie Smith. The staging's cinematic blend of pageantry and intimacy is a drama showcase for Hytner, best known for musicals such as Broadway's Miss Saigon and the Broadway-bound London revival of Carousel. The brevity of the eight-week U.S. run, combined with its vast scale -- 23 actors onstage and a staff of 22 -- pretty much ensures it will be at best a break- even for the Royal National. Explains artistic director Richard Eyre...
...capacity of his old NBC studio) and a whole new neighborhood for his snoopy cameras to roam around in. "You can leave the stage, go down three or four steps, open the door, and you're right on 53rd Street," says Letterman. "I can scream every night at Miss Saigon. I can literally holler at her. I can make enough noise on our sidewalk to disrupt their show every night...
...Together, is loosely conceived as a party at which old flames flicker and new ones spark. To quote Sondheim's nearest intellectual forebear, Cole Porter, what a swell party it is. With new material from Sondheim, designs by three Tony winners, choreography by Bob Avian (A Chorus Line, Miss Saigon) and a cast headed by Julie Andrews in her first New York stage appearance since Camelot in 1961, the show seems absurdly overabundant for its venue, a nonprofit house seating 299. But then, impresario Cameron Mackintosh (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables) has been showing up night after night, pondering...