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...larger theaters are tours or revivals of Broadway hits. "Original" hits are rare; and these days they all seem to be Phantoms. In 1989 Ken Hill's version recouped its $1 million investment in an amazingly quick eight weeks and has since toured profitably. Another Phantom, by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit (Broadway's Nine), ran for a boffo year in Chicago, has been playing for seven triumphant months at the Westchester Broadway Theater in Elmsford, New York, opened this month in Kansas City, Kansas, and St. Petersburg, Florida, and is due in six other cities. The show may never...
...story of an Italian film director who has sought refuge at a Venetian spa, where he is desperately trying to put together a film and at the same time make sense out of his disorderly life. Arthur Kopit's book is confusing, Maury Yeston's music is forgettable, and his lyrics are banal. Yet Tune's direction is so lively one tends to forget all that. Most directors would be glad just to avoid traffic jams with such a large cast: four boys, one man and 21 women. Tune, by contrast, rejoices in movement...
...NINE" Book by Arthur Kopit Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston...
Though his lyrics would sound puerile coming from a sixth-grader, Yeston's music is refreshingly versatile and fetchingly melodic. The masterly and inventive directorial hand of Tommy Tune is everywhere in evidence, but he has permitted the scent of high camp and low vulgarity to permeate far too much of the show. In one obnoxious sequence, a plump, leering bawd inducts the boy Guido (Cameron Johann) and three of his classmates into the rites of sex to the beat of tambourines and the priapic chant Be Italian, Intermittently spotlighted during the show is a quartet of women dubbed...