Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AUTHORS: MUSIC BY MARVIN HAMLISCH; LYRICS BY DAVID ZIPPEL; BOOK BY NEIL SIMON...
...Broadway adage holds that there are 50 ways for a musical to go wrong and only one for it to go right. No musical this season was more eagerly awaited than The Goodbye Girl, Neil Simon's adaptation of his 1977 hit movie about the bumpily blossoming romance between a single mother and a quirky actor forced to share an apartment and a succession of setbacks. Adding to the buzz were Simon's collaborators: Marvin Hamlisch, composer of Broadway's longest-running show ever, A Chorus Line, and David Zippel, whose lyrics for City of Angels were the wittiest...
...mistake was failing to settle on a place and time. The front , curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more precisely, Simon's musical hit Sweet Charity. A carousel-like jungle gym in Day-Glo tones suggests the '70s, as do the male lead's fixations on meditation and macrobiotics. The sexual precocity of the female lead's 12-year-old daughter feels contemporary. Yet the sonorous music and often sentimental lyrics seem...
Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences Simon M. Schama, a noted narrative historian, has announced to the History Department that he will leave Harvard for Columbia University this fall...
...possible canonization of POPE PIUS XII, which the Vatican has been investigating for over 25 years, is drawing fire from a Jewish leader. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, says Pius XII (who reigned from 1939 to '58) was publicly silent during the Holocaust. Hier also says a letter he obtained from a Vatican official indicates that the nomination is moving forward. Father John Pawlikowski of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago says outrage is premature: "The process is a long one, and any major decisions could be years away." Look for the issue to spark discussions...