Word: showing
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...time when Broadway's musical well has run so dry that recycled revues like It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues and Fosse compete for Tonys, it comes as a pleasant shock to realize that Stephen Sondheim has had an unproduced show in his trunk for more than 40 years. The young composer wrote Saturday Night in the mid-'50s, but a planned Broadway opening was scuttled when the producer died. It was mounted for the first time by a small company in London in 1997. Now Chicago's Pegasus Players has given the musical (with two new songs added...
With a book by Julius Epstein (co-writer of the film classic Casablanca), the show revolves around a group of Brooklyn single guys in 1929 who pool their money so that Gene, the most ambitious of their band, can make a killing in the stock market. Despite piquant parallels to our own market mania, the story is a pretty standard boy-meets-girl/boy-loses-money trifle. But it's a showcase for a fresh and winning Sondheim score, from the days when he wrote melodies meant to be enjoyed, not deciphered...
...Your first season, you were 93rd in the ratings. Yet you continued to call the show Everybody Loves Raymond...
...president] Les Moonves promised if the show made the Top 15, I could change the name. Now it's too late...
Ricky Martin and the Latin-fused sound he represents [SHOW BUSINESS, May 24] are a welcome breath of fresh air on the otherwise dreary pop-music scene. It's time to dance again, and not a moment too soon. !Viva la vida loca! JAVIER SAN MIGUEL Los Angeles...