Word: sellarsization
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THE TITLE My One and Only seems an ironic comment on the show's recent mishaps. Its playbill currently credits no director. The last few weeks before opening night saw staff chaos: first Peter Sellars '80 was fired from the directorship, then Mike Nichols was brought in to offer advice...
My One and Only simply needs a redirection of its energies. Shows like 42nd Street and Sophisticated Ladies prove that musicals can succeed with only a slight plot or none at all. In fact, Tune's own Tony award winning Nine succeeds not because of an extemely engrossing story (its...
"We gave the fellowship because of the extraordinary promise shown by Peter Sellars." Kennith W. Hape, winning director of the Prize Fellowship, explained yesterday, "not because he is attached to a particular production company."
But Daniel A. Sherkow of Paramount Theater said yesterday that Sellars had "a rather parochial way of looking at the show. We took certain liberties that be regarded as Vegas-style embellishments."
This emotional modernization is mirrored by an updating in the play's setting. Refreshingly. Brown has shunned an aggressive Peter Sellars-brand recasting of the entire operetts--the gondoliers who become kings are not Haitian boat-people, and the local duke, duchess and grand inquisitor are not the Trilateral Commission...