Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SHOWS HAVE ARRIVED ON Broadway hauling as much excess baggage as Sunset Boulevard, the Andrew Lloyd Webber megamusical based on the Billy Wilder film that opened last week. Having already conquered London and Los Angeles, Sunset has generated enormous expectations -- reflected in a record advance sale of $38 million. There's been backstage drama aplenty, as the mercurial composer sacked not one but two leading ladies, and snubbed New York by opening the $13 million American production in Los Angeles last year. No doubt, legions of Lloyd Webber haters would love to see the infuriatingly successful British interloper have another...
Thirty years ago, a fresh new musical comedy opened to rave reviews on Broadway. Based on renowned playwright Thornton Wilder's piece The Matchmaker, with music by the young songwriter lerry Herman, Hello Dolly! was born and has captured a record breaking 10 Tony Awards. A great deal has changed in the three decades since its birth, but Hello, Dolly! remains an awe-inspiring show because its protagonist, Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, maintains her 1950s "nice girl persona" while underneath being a woman of the '90s, fully in control of the world around...
...Dean Martin, Bob Hope and Marilyn Monroe, Abbott and Costello. And there were movies called "Abbott and Costello Meet the Werewolf," of which the less said the better. And then there was Ed Wood, who was funny when he didn't mean to be. And then there was Billy Wilder, with movies like "Some Like it Hot"--thank Heaven...
...there was a new spirit at work in the land. And there were great black comedies like "Dr. Strangelove," and there was the early Woody Allen (this was when people guffawed at Woody rather than nodded thoughtfully). And there was "The Producers" and there were collaborations between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. And there was news from England in Richard Lester's Beatles movies and there was a group called Monty Python, of which the more said the better. And there was "Nashville" and "M'A'S'H" and "Shampoo...
...anti-Ollie race aided by withdrawal of arch-rival Doug Wilder...