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...Mancha revival two years ago, is the addled victim of scorn and abuse. Paul the puppeteer, in the City Center Encores! 2002 concert version of Carnival, is crippled, and expresses his sensitivity in bitterness. The barber Sweeney Todd, whom Mitchell played the same year for a Stephen Sondheim season in Washington, D.C., kills his customers and sells their ground-up bodies as meat pies. As the put-upon petty criminal (a non-singing role) in August Wilson?s King Hedley II, Mitchell plays a troubled man heading for tragedy. Even his roguish, blustery hero in Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award...
Written by Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dorothy Parker, and Lillian Hellman, among others, Candide is traditionally an ambitious project to undertake musically, dramatically, and technically. Greenhalgh directs a cast of twenty student actors who must showcase diverse skills, ranging from the performance of kicklines to the singing of songs about syphilis over the span of two continents. For this reason, there are three producers—Joshua H. Billings ’07, Sherra T. Wong ’05 and Emily C. Zazulia ’06—rather than the two typical of Harvard productions. Daniel W. Chetel...
Written by Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dorothy Parker, and Lillian Hellman, among others, Candide is traditionally an ambitious project to undertake musically, dramatically, and technically. Greenhalgh directs a cast of twenty student actors who must showcase diverse skills, ranging from the performance of kicklines to the singing of songs about syphilis over the span of two continents. For this reason, there are three producers—Joshua H. Billings ’07, Sherra T. Wong ’05 and Emily C. Zazulia ’06—rather than the two typical of Harvard productions. Daniel W. Chetel...
...coming back." Harvey Weinstein certainly thinks so. In the past year, the Miramax boss (his studio was behind Chicago) has gobbled up the rights to such old-school classics as Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls and Pippin. American Beauty director Sam Mendes has announced plans to shoot Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Mel Brooks is set to roll on his movie turned musical turned movie, The Producers. Chris Columbus has signed on for Rent, and there are plans for big-screen versions of Bombay Dreams, Urinetown and Hairspray. Chicago cloaked its musical yearnings by having its song-and-dance numbers...
...FROGS In this update of Greek theater via Stephen Sondheim in New York City, Nathan Lane battles a "Bully Bush Frog"--a creature that "makes pre-emptive strikes and forgets why it attacked in the first place...