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Boston Conservatory. Perform Stephen Sondheim's Assassins on Thursday, Oct. 22; Friday, Oct. 23 and Saturday, Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. Alson on Saturday, Oct. 24 and Sunday, Oct. 25 at 3 p.m. Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St., Boston. $15 for general admission; $10 for students. Call 536-6340 for more information...
Assassins. Through Oct. 25. The Boston premiere of Stephen Sondheim's latest and most controversial musical. Boston Conservatory Theater, 8 the Fenway, Boston. Shows at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, at 3 and 8 p.m. on Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, $15; $10 for students and seniors...
...Guys and Dolls, Jelly's Last Jam, The Most Happy Fella, Five Guys Named Moe, The Will Rogers Follies, The Secret Garden, Once on This Island, Grand Hotel and, in an earlier gestation, Falsettos. The ardent browser will find off-Broadway hits (Song of Singapore) and fizzles (Stephen Sondheim's Assassins) and even the season's notorious flops on Broadway (Nick & Nora) and off (Eating Raoul). If Moose Murders had been a musical, someone would now be recording...
Composer Daniel Levine, who has never written a musical before, has yet to develop a distinctive sound: there are stylistic echoes of everything from Blossom Time to Sondheim, although the wistfulness is genuine enough in the title character's Act I showstopper, I'm Lost. Levine's writing partner, Peter Kellogg, also a beginner, deftly focuses the story on Anna's forced choice between romantic love for Vronsky and maternal love for her child by her husband Karenin. But Kellogg nearly wrecks the enterprise with lyrics so blandly generic that they convey hardly any specifics of character -- especially frustrating when...
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM: COMPANY. At 10 one May Sunday morning in 1970, cinema verite filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop) took his camera into the studio to document the recording of Company, the witty, brittle musical that established Stephen Sondheim as Broadway's premier lyricist-composer. Pennebaker fashioned the joy and angst of the 18 1/2-hr. endeavor into a thrilling mini-musical in itself. Virtually unseen for two decades, the film is now available on video (RCA Victor). High points: Dean Jones earnestly attacking Being Alive, Elaine Stritch agonizing through The Ladies Who Lunch...