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...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...
...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...
After Hammerstein's death from cancer in 1960, Rodgers valiantly plowed on. He worked with Stephen Sondheim on a musical, Do I Hear a Waltz? An attempt at a collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist of My Fair Lady, came to nothing. I can vouch for Alan's never having had the almost puritanical discipline that Rodgers found so satisfactory in Hammerstein. Sadly, too, with one or two exceptions, the post-Hammerstein melodies paled against Rodgers' former output. Who can say why? Perhaps it was simply the lack of the right partner to provide inspiration and bring out the best...
...triple-headed King Ghidorah in Destroy All Monsters (1968), from the oversize Japanese nationalist who takes on a visiting American ape in King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and from the wholesome environmentalist wrestling a mess of sludge in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1972). Poor thing. With apologies to Sondheim: "First you're everyone's rough-hide scamp; then the other monster; then you're camp...