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DIED. NIGEL HAWTHORNE, 72, British stage and screen actor internationally known for his role as the pompous, conniving civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby in the 1980s British television series Yes, Minister; of a heart attack; in Hertfordshire, England. Expert at dry, laconic wit, Hawthorne scored a late-career triumph in the title role of The Madness of King George, for which he was nominated for an Oscar...
...first column I published in this space was a retrospective of a summer’s theatrical experiences. With 2001 now in the books, it seems fitting to undertake another retrospective and look back at the year that was in theater. To wit, I hand out my first annual year-end awards in the field of American theater...
...Sondheim’s mature works, the only one lacking a recording was The Frogs. Until now. Finally, the musical legendary for its premiere at a Yale Drama swimming pool can be heard in its glory. It is a rich choral production with considerable wit, not to mention the star presence of Nathan Lane and Brian Stokes Mitchell as narrators, with Lane performing the well-known opening number as well. Davis Gaines contributes a lovely rendition of “Fear No More.” Included with the Frogs on the same CD is Evening Primrose, a 35 year...
...staying adaptable. In days of rag, the jazz age, and now in hard times, Berlin not only anticipated the general feeling but styled it attractively, gave advice that most people wanted to take." Berlin was clever, but not too too clevah. His songs had a plebian sophistication - the wit everybody could...
...CLUB Berlin's mix of sentiment and a brash, welcoming wit made him the favorite composer of the people - but maybe not of other top composers. I wonder if he was ever considered a member of their club, of whether he considered himself one. Oh, they were all chummy. Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were his producers on "Annie Get Your Gun"; he took over from Kern, who had died suddenly. (Twenty years earlier, Rodgers was not so pleased when, at the request of the star Belle Baker, Berlin had written a song for her to interpolate into an otherwise...