Word: sondheimer
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...heart attack; in New York City. Though his Broadway version quickly folded, his 1968 screen version of the 12th century battle-of-the-sexes succession fight between Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) earned him an Oscar. Goldman also wrote the book for the Sondheim musical Follies...
...Guettel, Richard Rodgers' grandson, who is living proof of the power of good genes. Best known for his 1996 musical Floyd Collins, Guettel is a startlingly original songwriter who, judging by the four songs included on Way Back to Paradise, has a straight shot at becoming the next Stephen Sondheim. His expressive range is wide enough to encompass The Allure of Silence, a gentle vignette of unspoken love on a winter evening, and Come to Jesus, a harrowing, near operatic dialogue between a woman about to have an abortion and the devastated lover who has deserted her ("You feel...
...Senator, and you've got a collection guaranteed to make intelligent theater-music fans prick up their ears. There's only one catch: Way Back to Paradise contains scenes, arias, and even full-blown art songs. But nostalgia-hungry listeners will search in vain among these determinedly theatrical post-Sondheim musical monologues for anything resembling the straightforward, crisply turned lyrics and incisive 32-bar melodies that for decades defined American popular music at its best...
...Capeman. Amid the rubble of Capeman's reviews, Crowley earned praise for his expressionistic perspectives of uptown tenements and upstate jails. He is now at work on four projects, including Hytner's film of the show Chicago (with Madonna and Goldie Hawn); a London revival of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, directed by Crowley's younger brother John; and a Disney stage musical loosely based on The Invisible Man. There's a Bob boom on: he is the guy everyone has to have...
Houston has funding for four more years of outdoor productions, though no operas have been set yet. Next January the stage will be moved indoors for a production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, starring Frederica von Stade. Several other opera houses have expressed interest in this new approach, and no doubt similar stages will soon be under construction. But the best thing about Houston's contemporary Carmen is not so much the modular stage, impressive though it is, as what Assaf has done with it. How do you get twentysomethings to fall for opera? The answer...