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...This season, to celebrate the centenary of the first Ziegfeld Follies (which opened at the Jardin de Paris, Broadway and 44th Street, on July 8, 1907), the Encores! management led by Jack Viertel staged three musicals inspired or produced by Ziegfeld's grand old revues. These were extravagant revues featuring vaudeville stars, lavish production numbers and statuesque chorines in eccentric headgear, and they ran annually until 1925, then sporadically for another decade, even after the great impresario's death in 1932. The revue format hung on through the 40s and 50s, with Leonard Sillman's New Faces series...
...antique text, and piqued in people who'd seen the show before one of those "Eureka!" moments. Now, we got it. We saw the maturity, the emotional wisdom in Goldman's libretto. His story - about two married couples who meet 30 years after the girls, chorines in a Ziegfeld-type revue, met their husbands-to-be - was revealed as a brilliant portrait of loves lost, ideals corrupted, obsessions curdled into desperation. Suburban infidelities truly could be the makings of bourgeois tragedy...
...Learning Tree to Chicago's Discovery Center to the Open University in Washington. Zanker, who takes a modest $70,000 salary but holds $5.5 million worth of Annex stock, sweepingly dismisses the competition as "mom-and-pop operations." He has, however, bought out the Open University. "I am the Ziegfeld of adult education," he proclaims...
...that your defenses are up from the outset of this spoofy musical. Then its cheery, self-mocking inventiveness wins you over. A lonely-guy theater buff (played by co-writer Bob Martin) puts on his LP of a fictional 1928 musical, and, faster than you can say Flo Ziegfeld, it materializes in his apartment. There's a Broadway diva, a scheming producer, gooey love songs and stock comic sidekicks. Best of all, there's the sensational Sutton Foster, who, in one knockout number, spins plates, does cartwheels and pulls out every other stop just to prove, as she sings...
After the book signing, Batali would fly home to New York City. His plane late, he would miss the private HBO screening of The Sopranos at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater. But he would make the premiere of Ring of Fire, the Johnny Cash musical on Broadway. Batali would then have drinks at the wrap party after the play; he got home around 1 a.m. A few hours later, he would get up early to take his boys, 7 and 9, to school. (Batali and his wife Susi Cahn live in Manhattan...