The Fairy Princesswatched the world reel from the announcement thatCrazy Rich Asians, the rom-com film that was the top money making rom com of all time, is being turned into a musical. This is what she pictures as some of the reactions, take it awayMomoa... She was already familiar a...
(Thomas Betterton's adapta- tion) from 1700, Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late (Dryden's adaptation) from 1671, The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (Shadwell's adaptation) from 1671, The Jew of Venice (Granville's adaptation) from 1701, the libretto of Purcell's operatic ...
My image as an aggressive magazine editor and investigative journalist atMetro Hampton RoadsMagazinein the 1970s belies the fact that I have written more than 350 poems aligned with a metaphysical perspective as well as the libretto for a classical music oratorio,The Awakening ofHumanity, which pre...
I attended the Canadian Opera Company’s presentation of La Reine-Garçon, their co-production of a new opera with a libretto by Michel Marc Bouchard and music composed by Julien Bilodeau. Today, February 2nd, is Bouchard’s birthday. In addition to this libretto for an opera co-commission...
While those are separate elements in nature, they are not represented by separate musical ideas. “Rather than make a wind theme and a water theme and a sand theme,” Lias explains, “I focused on a group of ideas that go both slow and fast. There are little ornate, intricate elements ...
I'm going to be releasing a libretto that is the narrative of the entire EP, the story of Paloma: how she is interacting with the music industry, how she's interacting with her lover and this heartbreak, how she's returning home, how she's interacting with a burning world in a rapidl...
But nowPit & Balconycommunity theatre will be presenting the regional premier of a new Broadway adaptation of this classic musical, with a fresh up-to-date, hilarious, and romantic libretto written by Tony-Award nomineeDouglas Carter Beanein a series of performances that will run fromNovember 10...
According to Wikipedia, Taylor’s operas were given more performances by the Metropolitan Opera than any other American composer (including his 1927 work The King’s Henchman, with libretto by Edna St. Vincent Millay). Deems Taylor on the cover of Time, Feb, 16, 1931 (Time Inc.) Taylor ...
A Chorus Line: Concept Musical SupremeThe original cast Playbill for A Chorus Line (1975), the most successful 1970s concept musical.The concept musical reached its peak with A Chorus Line (1975 - 6,137 performances), the brainchild of Michael Bennett. He had Broadway chorus dancers (known ...
I notified girlfriends first of my pending journey, weaving a libretto that left them gobstruck. “Why?” they asked, “why are you doing this?” But their question was conjoined with love, respect, and a tad of envy. I then told the identical tale to a few of my male friends. Whil...