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...hill, eventually becomes distasteful. Rivera, who could dance the telephone book entertainingly, more or less does just that in some tired, ordinary routines. For those who like Las Vegas spectaculars or TV variety hours, Girls may prove entertaining. But when compared with the 1977 Side by Side by Sondheim, a revue by another Broadway stalwart, Stephen Sondheim, it lacks texture, narrative and perception of human nature...
...inevitable. In that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from Utah, Kern virtually created the prototype for the modern American ballad. From that moment (when his music was already entrancing a couple of teenagers named Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin) to this (when Composers Stephen Sondheim and Milton Babbitt have written appreciations of his work), Kern's revolution has continued unsilenced. It should last for another hundred years, and maybe for as long as anyone can carry a tune...
...Broadway premiere in 1957, the city-gritty updating of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Composer Leo nard Bernstein, Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Choreographer Jerome Robbins was hailed as much for its quasi-operatic score as for its savvy lyrics and explosive, streetwise dances. Now comes a new Deutsche Grammophon recording, conducted by the composer, that makes the show's higher musical aspirations unabashedly explicit...
...opera? "I say it is not," Bernstein has asserted. "It's a work on its way toward being one." But one of the salutary developments in recent years is the expanding definition of opera to include musical theater, a category that now encompasses everything from La Boheme to Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. Fueled by Bernstein's protean musical gifts, West Side Story was one of the opening salvos in a revolution that invigorated a tiring genre...
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. If you loved the painting, you'll like the show. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine based their Broadway musical on Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and found subterranean seisms of feeling: hostile, wistful, possessed...