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This month alone The Entertainment Channel is offering a splendid re-creation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Angela Lansbury and George Hearn; Showtime has Paul Osborn's 1939 comedy Morning's at Seven, with four stars from its recent Broadway revival; and Home Box Office is airing Camelot, with Richard Harris as King Arthur in the throes of male menopause. Other transplanted Broadway shows will follow later this year: Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Showtime), Medea with Zoe Caldwell and Judith Anderson (CBS Cable) and Long Day's Journey into Night with...
...with most pay-cable theater offerings, Camelot is a safe bet: a hit show that became a hit movie, with a big star treading the boards once more in an upscale TV dinner theater. Sweeney Todd is something more dangerous, and something close to thrilling. When produced in 1979, Sondheim's macabre opera was not the stuff theater-party hits are made on: a musical about a London barber who cuts his customers' throats, a stage set as bleak as Bedlam, a score full of tunes to scream on your way out of the theater. On cable this...
...chinos, basketball sneakers and a pink Lacoste shirt, Michael Schubert paces about the Hasty Pudding Club's cluttered office. "I think everyone in the world has one chance to do what they want to do," he says fervently. "Hal Prince has got to listen to me once, Stephen Sondheim will have to listen to me once...
Schubert's contacts in New York include his idol Stephen Sondheim, whom he met last year at a rehearsal of Harvard's production of "Side by Side by Sondheim." Sondheim encouraged him to continue writing at that time, Schubert says, adding that he hopes to show material to the older composer for criticism and advice. "He's very helpful about that sort of thing, "Schubert says. "Not that many people are willing to take the time to listen to people--that's partially why there's a dearth of good musical theater on Broadway right...
...TWELVE MEMBER CHORUS on The Frogy provides not only the classical function of explaining or commenting on the drama, but the entertainment value of a modern musical chorus. These twelve alternate as frogs, singing "koax-brek-kek-kek" in the river Styx, and as Dionysians, singing hymns. Sondheim's simple four-part melodies combine new lyrics with quotations from Aristophanes' original to provide enjoyable interludes. The singing, surprisingly strong for a student production, reverberates in the courtyard. The slight echo in the Fogg occasionally interferes with actor's speeches all other times, but during the musical numbers this mild echo...