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...appreciated the charming article on Dr. Seuss's books and characters crossing new frontiers into a movie and a Broadway musical [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 20]. Your writer Jess Cagle captured the devotion of Audrey Geisel, "the widow," to all things Seussian: keeping the ashes of her late husband Theodor Seuss Geisel in her hutch and monitoring all aspects of the licensing of Dr. Seuss materials. Were you aware that both How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Cat in the Hat have been published in Latin? Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit (literally, How the Nasty Individual Named Grinch...
...Theodor Seuss Geisel, who is best known as Dr. Seuss and has sold up to 400 million books, would approve of his final resting place, for there was a bit of the Grinch in him. He cherished the solitude of his mountaintop retreat, and he never had children of his own. ("You make 'em, I amuse 'em," he famously said.) He doted instead on the menagerie of misfits and mischiefmakers who have populated his children's books since 1937's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept...
...Theodor Seuss Geisel, who was best known as Dr. Seuss and sold up to 400 million books, would approve of his final resting place, for there was a bit of the Grinch in him. He cherished the solitude of his mountaintop retreat, and he never had children of his own. ("You make 'em, I amuse 'em," he famously said.) He doted instead on the menagerie of misfits and mischiefmakers who have populated his children's books since 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept...
Need a musical goose?/then get off your caboose/and enthuse for a doozical, woozical Seuss/Where the Whos call a truce/And a moose might be puce/When you choose a Carus-ical, musical Seuss. Maybe nobody can twist sounds into balloon animals of rhyme the way Theodor Geisel did, but a Tony-laden team is going to try, adapting some of Geisel's Dr. Seuss books and characters into a Broadway show called Seussical: The Musical. The songs are by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime). Frank Galati, who won two Tony awards for The Grapes of Wrath, is the director...
Professor Theodor Meron, a New York University professor of law lecturing on humanitarian law at Harvard this semester, also raved about the book...