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Where does Dustin Hoffman, Hollywood's hottest leading actor, go to try his hand at Shakespeare? Where does composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has had six megamusicals on Broadway in the '80s, launch his latest? Where does American playwright Martin Sherman (Bent) debut a work about his countrymen in exile...
...most eagerly anticipated arrival, Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, is also the best. Adapted from a 1955 novel by Britain's David Garnett, it is a rueful and autumnal meditation on romance as a process of teaching, almost of parenting. Five characters of widely varying ages entwine, sort themselves out and entwine in new pairings over decades. This sophisticated material is handled with cunning naivete. Lloyd Webber's score, characteristically, consists mostly of a few much repeated tunes: Love Changes Everything, Seeing Is Believing and Life Goes On, Love Goes Free. All three rank among the prettiest...
Whose narrative is hard to say. No one is credited with writing the book. The wry and suave lyrics are attributed to Don Black, who was Lloyd Webber's main collaborator on Song and Dance, and to Charles Hart, whose words were the weakest part of Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. Major contributions were surely made by the composer and by director Trevor Nunn, and the storytelling is also enhanced by Maria Bjornson's dreamlike designs. They shift fluidly from a naturalistic mansion courtyard to a mountain range at sunset conveyed by just a jagged line of reddish...
...West End is having its best season in years, with an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Dustin Hoffman's debut in Shakespeare and a fine new work by American playwright Martin Sherman...
...have what I think will be the greatest media and entertainment company in the world. I would rather be a long-term owner than cashed out of one of the world's most exciting companies at $175 a share." Concurred Kendrick Noble, who follows media companies for the Paine Webber investment firm: "After all the smoke blows away and we can look at the facts, Time's | shareholders should gain from this. The new company will produce higher income over the longer term...