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...MUSICAL NUMBERS carry a great deal of the show. The songs, written by Melissa Mizel and Michael Schubert, capture different moods and stages of development of kids who have emerged from the cavity-prone years, but are not quite ready to compete with leaders of today. They move along quickly, rarely dragging, and, helped by ingenious choreography, the more lively numbers evoke all the electricity of a Singing in the Rain. John Stimpson's solos as Kip, the WASPish, lazy, grinning, beer-drinking jock and all-around good guy, are outstandingly funny, and Stimpson's equally expert singing and dancing...
...from the man who correctly dubbed his own work "inimitable." His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, its sentences as convoluted as London streets, its title ominously resonant of "dread" and "mood," lies half done: 23 chapters and some scattered notes. Like such unfinished masterpieces as Schubert's Eighth Symphony, Coleridge's Kubla Khan, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, Drood powerfully intrigues readers and writers. Publishers offer Dickens' friend Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone, the privilege of completing Edwin Drood; he declines, but later writes a similar story of duality...
...YORK theater critics don't seem to have the same clout they used to. They panned American Hostage when it opened last November but today, 255 performances later, the show still packs 'em in at the old Schubert in Tehran, across the street from Sardik...
German conductor Peter Gulke led the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) into the U.S. premiere of a recently discovered fragment by Franz Schubert Saturday night...
Gulke, conductor of the Dresden State Opera, orchestrated the movement in 1978 after musicologists discovered it in a sketchbook of Schubert's and dated it two weeks before the composer's death...