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DECEMBER 1999 (Volume 13)

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IN THIS ISSUE

MEMORIES - MY YEARS OF THEATREGOING 1955-1999 - Part 4

GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE

HOWARD LINDSAY AND RUSSELL CROUSE

THEONI V. ALDREDGE

BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

ART

MICHAEL TODD

ALFRED LUNT AND LYNN FONTANNE

JEROME KERN

AGNES DEMILLE

VINCENTE MINNELLI

JENUFA

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MY YEARS OF THEATREGOING - PART 5 - 1962

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Is It Curtains for Broadway's Ragtime?; Producers Mull Members of the Broadway company of Ragtime were told the week of Oct. 18 that the opulently-staged musical about the turn of the last century might not be around at the dawn of the new century. SFX Entertainment Inc., which acquired Ragtime when it bought Livent in 1999, is looking at various options for the expensive-to-run Tony Award-winner, several company members confirmed. Those options, outlined in a New York Times item Oct. 22, include shutting down and scaling back the cast, scenic elements and crew at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (which would require a six-week hiatus, per Actors' Equity); scaling back and moving to another theatre (as The Scarlet Pimpernel has done), which would leave the Ford Center free for rental; or closing the show for good, also leaving the theatre available for rental. One company member said he was told by his boss the show will likely shut down. SFX/Pace has not made an official statement about the future of the show. The Times quoted Pace chairman Miles Wilkin saying that information has been studied and a decision and announcement may come within the month. The Music Man, Jane Eyre and Jesus Christ Superstar are among the homeless incoming shows looking for shelter before the late April end of the 1999-2000 season. Pace Theatrical Group, under the umbrella of SFX, scaled back the national tour of Ragtime in 1999 by trimming cast and scenic elements. Regional reviews have been favorable, suggesting the Tony Award-winning score can survive a more human-scale mounting. On the road, the show's once-elaborate moving bridges and walkways were scrapped in favor of actor-driven scenes (J.P. Morgan plows down immigrants on a railway cart, for example). Observers say that Broadway will never again see the opulence of Ragtime, which has an acting company of 59. More than 100 people are in service of the show for every performance. The week of Oct. 11-17 the production grossed $600,010 of a possible $892,172. Weekly attendance has hovered around 85 percent for several weeks, which is solid for a smaller show, but less desirable for a high maintenance production like Ragtime. "The cost of running the show is so high," said one insider. The Times reported the show's running cost as $530,000 a week. The now-deposed producer Garth Drabinsky, the Livent founder, believed in attaching all the bells and whistles to his shows, and Ragtime is a prime example of his showmanship: The show includes moving bridges and walkways, rising and falling stage floors, a large cast, sets pieces that only appear briefly in the three-hour performance, and more. Drabinsky was accused of financial misconduct by those who succeeded him at Livent. Ragtime opened in the 1997-1998 Broadway season at Livent's Ford Center for the Performing Arts. It won four Tony Awards -- for Terrence McNally's book, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's score, Ahren's orchestrations and Audra McDonald's Featured Actress performance. In a heated competition, it lost Best Musical to The Lion King. The show had a pre-Broadway tryout in Toronto in 1996-97. It will close in New York January 16, 2000 with a total of 861 performances and 26 previews. It won 4 Tony Awards - book, score, orchestrations and Audra McDonald best featured actress.

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THEATRE OBITUARIES

New York producer Irving Siders, 81, following a massive heart attack he suffered four days earlier. Mr. Siders' credits include tours and productions of Dancin', Dreamgirls and other shows, including the recent national tour of Dreamgirls that was aimed for -- but did not reach -- Broadway; George Forrest, 84, the songwriter who, with Robert Wright, penned lyrics and wrote music for Kismet, Grand Hotel, Song of Norway and other musicals, died in Florida Oct. 10 after suffering a massive stroke. Oct. 8. The writers -- would go on to give the world "Stranger in Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" from their greatest hit, Kismet (1953) -- The pair auditioned for M-G-M in the mid-1930s and earned a contract, writing songs for "Maytime," for which they borrowed classical themes. Among their more famous songs are "The Donkey Serenade," which features their lyrics and a theme by Friml (which they adapted), and "Strange Music," inspired by the music of Edvard Grieg. They are best known for penning classically-tinged scores for Broadway's Song of Norway (a Grieg biography based on Grieg themes, 1944), Kismet (based on Borodin themes, 1953), Magdalena (written with Villa-Lobos, 1948) and an African-American version of Kismet called Timbuktu! (1978); Maria Ley Piscator, the teacher-director and widow of the revolutionary European director, Erwin Piscator, died Oct. 14, at the Jewish Home and Hospital for the aged in Manhattan, The New York Times reported. The 101-year-old Ms. Piscator (nee Maria Czada) was born in Vienna and was a dancer and choreographer in her early career. Erwin Piscator (1893-1966) was her third husband. His theories and use of film, animation and lighting in stage productions was influenced by the work of Max Reinhardt and he was part of the "epic" theatre movement associated with Bertolt Brecht; Lee Richardson, a featured actor Tony Award nominee for 1971's Vivat! Vivat Regina!, died Oct. 2 in New York of a cardiac arrest. The stage, film and TV actor was 73 and was one of the founding members of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and appeared in such plays as The American Dream, Absent Friends and The Oldest Living Graduate; Film composer, Frank DeVol, 88, whose scores have been heard in such films as The Big Knife, Kiss Me Deadly, Pillow Talk, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Send Me No Flowers, Cat Ballou, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Dirty Dozen, as well as numerous television shows; Ian Bannen, 71, the Scottish actor who appeared in the recent film, "Waking Ned Devine," and played roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, died Nov. 3 in a car crash near Loch Ness, Scotland. In the 1950s, Mr. Bannen acted on the London stage in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night and in a 1983 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten. Films roles include "Braveheart," "Hope and Glory," Gorky Park," "Gandhi" and 1966's "The Flight of the Phoenix," for which he earned an Academy Award nomination. He made his stage debut in Armlet of Jade in Dublin in 1947; Judy Schoen, a Los Angeles-based theatrical agent who represented Brian Dennehy, Lara Flynn Boyle, Kyle Chandler and others, died Oct. 29 of lung cancer. Ms. Schoen, 57, worked at a number of agencies before forming Judy Schoen & Associates in 1988. The Atlanta native is a former actress who performed at the Alliance Theatre there. She appeared on Broadway in Red and White Maddox at the Cort Theatre.

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CHARITY AUCTION OF PHANTOM OF THE OPERA PROPS

A fundraising campaign and auctions of props, costumes and memorabilia related to the 10-year-old Toronto staging of The Phantom of the Opera, which closed Oct. 31 after 4,226 performances, garnered $92,500 for Canadian charity. The "monkey music box," a prop famous in the opening scene of the Andrew Lloyd Webber show (and culled from the Toronto staging), sold Oct. 31 for an astonishing $28,000, according to Phantom Touring LLC, an SFX Entertainment company, which produced the show. In the musical, the monkey music box is sold at auction in 1905 for 30 francs. It is described thus in the script: "A papier-mache musical box, in the shape of a barrel organ. Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes, playing the cymbals." This was the first time any items from the production had been made available for purchase. A Paul Stanley Signature PS2000 guitar emblazoned with the The Phantom of the Opera logo and the "Phantom" mask with KISS star insignia, created by Washburn International, sold for $13,500. The one-of-a-kind guitar had a value of $5,000. Stanley's Phantom mask, autographed and mounted in a frame, sold for $9,000. Stanley, of the rock group KISS, was the last of many actors to play the title role at the Pantages Theatre. The money earned at auction goes to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and Canadian Actors' Equity Association/ Equity Fights AIDS. Proceeds from a live auction raised $56,400 and two silent auctions together raised an additional $20,130. The Phantom company also solicited funds from the stage following each performance during the final week of performances and raised another $16,000.

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THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

What a privilege for Toronto to get the second of the trilogy, "The Beauty Queen of Leenane." Not just because of the play itself, but we also got director Garry Hynes, who won the Tony Award for best direction in New York (the first lady to have the privilege of winning this coveted award, the second being Julie Taymor for The Lion King. Ms Hynes also was nominated for directing The Lonesome West. We also got the set and costumes designed by the same person, Francis O'Connor and the same lighting designer, Ben Ormerod. We got stars of the calibre of Fiona Reid and Joan Orenstein, along with Oliver Becker and Matthew Edison. And what ensemble players they are. I do not want to tell you about the play, as it is definitely a "must see." But you are not likely to see a better production. The playwright, Martin McDonagh, is brilliant, young and tremendously insiteful into the human psyche. He is a modern-day Tennessee Williams. The suspense, the emotional upheaval, the words, all flow from his pen. And having seen two of his plays, both very different, but both with underlying tension and great humour. One leaves the theatre with great insight into the Irish lifestyle. You never feel you want to live in county Galway, but you get a great understanding of why the people want out, and America sounds like the promised land. Seeing a play by Mr. McDonagh is like being present for the opening night of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" or "A Streetcar Named Desire." You will never ever forget either of these plays. Hopefully Toronto will get to see the third of the trilogy.

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ART

French playwright Yasmina Reza's "Art," translated by English playwright Christopher Hampton, which has won many coveted awards including the Moliere award for best author and best production, Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, Teatr Heute Award for Best Foreign Play, Drama Critics' Circle Award , Fany Award, Tony Award for Best Play, ACE Award for Best Dramatic Comedy, does not flow in spite of being performed without an intermission. It does have its moments, however, and in particular, the performance of Stephen Ouimette helps to save the evening. It is a good play, with good interaction among the three players, Scott Hylands, Richard Poe and Stephen Ouimette, but it does not soar off the stage. After seeing The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which is in my estimation a great play, Art could be performed in summer stock, or as a high school production, as there is no great talent needed to bring it off. This production which was mounted for the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the Royal Alexandra Theatre, will perhaps, in time, get better as the direction by William Joseph Barnes, is tightened up, but what I saw last evening, although quite enjoyable, is not worthy of any of these awards. After the performance, we were treated to David Mirvish discussing art. He is an eloquent speaker and can keep an audience spellbound.

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COMPOSERS AND LYRICISTS - JEROME KERN (1885-1945)

Born in New York, and moved to Newark where his mother gave him piano lessons. He went to New York School of Music. His first work of importance was "The Earl and the Girl." He was fascinated with London, and went back and forth, adding melodies to "The Doll Girl," The Dairymaids," Fascinating Flora," "Fluffy Ruffles," and "The Girl from Montmartre." He even married an English girl, Eva Leale, in 1910.

In 1914 he added songs to a London import "The Girl from Utah," and one of the songs from that show was "They Didn't Believe Me." After that he began working with Guy Bolton and they came up with a big hit, "Very Good Eddie." They then added P.G. Wodehouse to their team, and wrote "Oh Boy" (1917), "Oh Lady! Lady!", "Have a Heart," and "Leave It to Jane." Mr. Kern wrote "Sally," for Marilyn Miller (1920) and "Sunny" (1925). In 1929 he collaborated with the great Oscar Hammerstein II on "Showboat," which was destined to become a classic of American theatre. They went on to "Sweet Adeline" (1929), and "Music in the Air" (1932).

Mr. Kern did "Roberta," (1933), and then moved on to Hollywood. He returned in 1939 to write the music for "Very Warm for May," and was collaborating on what was to become "Annie Get Your Gun" when he died.

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MEMORIES - MY YEARS OF THEATREGOING 1955-1999 - Part 4

THE EARLY SIXTIES

In 1961 O'Keefe Centre brought in My Fair Lady with Michael Evans and Diane Todd, Marlene Dietrich with her incredible trailing white fur coat, Johnny Mathis with the Hermes Pan dancers, Flanders and Swann with "At the Drop of a Hat," the Pulitzer prize winning Fiorello with Bob Carroll, Brendan Behan's The Hostage, with Donald Moffat, Show Girl with Carol Channing and Jules Munshin, Destry Rides Again with Gretchen Wyler, Andy Griffith, Delores Gray and Stephen Douglass, with the great sets by Oliver Smith, lighting by Jean Rosenthal and directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, The Andersonville Trial with Brian Aherne, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, with Juanita Hall, Jack Soo and Robert Ito, and a great production of Gypsy with the legendary Ethel Merman belting out those songs, featuring Joe Silver, Jack Klugman, Sandra Church, Michael Parks, Peg Murray, Marilyn Cooper and Maria Karnilova. This was probably the highlight of the year. Jean Anouilh's Becket, with Laurence Olivier and Arthur Kennedy, as well as Marie Powers and Anthony Quinn, directed by Peter Glenville and sets by Oliver Smith, costumes by Motley; a pre-Broadway production of Kwamina with Brock Peters, Robert Guillaume, Sally Ann Howes and Lillian Hayman, also costumed by Motley, and a iffy plot centered on interracial feelings; another pre-Broadway show The Gay Life with sets by Oliver Smith, music by Dietz and Schwartz, costumes by Lucinda Ballard and starring the wonderful Barbara Cook (now of diva fame), Jules Munsin, Walter Chiari and Elizabeth Allen; Bravo Giovanni, with Cesare Siepi, George S. Irving, Michele Lee, Arnold Soboloff, Maria Karnilova and Lainie Kazan; The Sound of Music with Florence Henderson.

Other productions during this period were Bye Bye Birdie, with Bill Haynes and Joan Blondell; A Thurber Carnival with Imogene Coca, King Donovan, and Arthur Treacher; Carnival with Susan Watson, Ed Ames and Jo Anne Worley, Lena Horne in her Nine O'Clock Revue, the great Judy Garland, a jazz revue called Impulse which featured Brendan Behan, but he was thrown in jail due to a fight with a hotel detective. The show starred Nina Simone.

We also were treated to performances by Eartha Kitt, Tony Martin, An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and from London, the Royal Ballet and the Mermaid's Treasure Island. The casts of the touring shows were usually second-rate but if I missed a show in New York, it usually ended up coming to Toronto. Sometimes there were great surprises, Mary Martin was brilliant in Hello Dolly and Jose Ferrer outdid Richard Kiley in Man of La Mancha.

In 1961 I got to New York only once, and saw Mary Mary by Jean Kerr, with Barbara Bel Geddes, Edward Mulhare and Barry Nelson; A Far Country with Steven Hill, the great Kim Stanley, Sam Wanamaker and Lili Darvas; a powerful production of Jean Genet's The Blacks, with an unbelievable cast, Roscoe Lee Brown, Vinie Burrows, James Earl Jones, Esther Rolle, Louis Gossett Jr., Cicely Tyson and Godfrey M. Cambridge. This, along with A Raisin in the Sun, established black theatre in New York. From these two plays, blacks were to get more and better roles in the theatre, and a few years later the wonderful Negro Ensemble Company was formed.

Other plays I saw were Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde with Mindy Carson, Alexandra Berlin and James Caan; Noel Coward's musical "Sail Away," with the great Elaine Stritch and dancer Grover Dale; Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, which brought Pinter to the forefront in America, with great performances by Alan Bates, Robert Shaw and Donald Pleasance; the musical "Milk and Honey," set in Israel, with Mimi Benzell, Robert Weede, Tommy Rall and Molly Picon; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," a delightful musical starring the great Robert Morse in the role of his career, Rudy Vallee, resurrected from oblivion, Virginia Martin, and Charles Nelson Reilly; Robert Bolt's tedious A Man For All Seasons, which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, with George Rose, Paul Scofield and Keith Baxter.

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DESIGNERS - THEONI V. ALDREDGE (1932- )

Greek born costume designer who originally worked with the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and later worked with the New York Shakespeare Festival. She designed the costumes for such shows as Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Mary Mary (1961), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), Any Wednesday (1964), Cactus Flower (1965), Little Murders (1967), A Chorus Line (1975), Woman of the Year (1981), and La Cage aux Folles (1983).

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DANCERS/CHOREOGRAPHER - AGNES DEMILLE (1905-1993)

New York born dancer who first performed on Broadway in Grand Street Follies (1928) and the next year she created the choreography for The Black Crook. She danced in London as well as New York and did dances for Hooray for What (1937) and Swingin' the Dream (1939) and with her dances in Oklahoma (1943) she became an established choreographer - more than any other she popularized modern ballet styles in theatre. She subsequently choreographed such productions as One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, Allegro, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Paint Your Wagon, The Girl in Pink Tights, Goldilocks, Juno, Kwamina, 110 in the Shade, and Come Summer (1969) which appeared pre-Broadway at the O'Keefe Centre. She also did a lot of work for various ballet companies, which include the great "Fall River Legend (1948).

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DIRECTORS - VINCENTE MINNELLI (1903-1986)

When Liza Minnelli does her act this fall at the Palace, it is a tribute to her father, but will be predominantly his film musicals like "Meet Me in St. Louis." He was originally one of Broadway's most imaginative artists, before going to Hollywood where he became a major director of musical films, his designs were seen in Earl Carroll Vanities (1932) and The Du Barry (1932). He both designed and staged At Home Abroad, The Show is On, Hooray for What!, and Very Warm for May. He also designed the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. *******************

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PLAYWRIGHTS - HOWARD LINDSAY (1889-1968) AND RUSSELL CROUSE (1893-1966)

Howard Lindsay started off as an actor throughout the 1920s, and then turned to playwrighting with She Loves Me Not (1933), then joined Russell Crouse to rewrite Anything Goes (1934), followed by Red Hot and Blue, Hooray for What, Life with Father - one of the longest running plays in New York history, Strip for Action, State of the Union which won the Pulitzer prize, Life With Mother, Call Me Madam (1950), Remains to be Seen, Prescott Proposals, The Great Sebastians, Happy Hunting, Tall Story, The Sound of Music and their final offering Irving Berlin's Mr. President.

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MICHAEL TODD (1907-1958)

Born in Minneapolis, he first gained recognition at the World's Fair in Chicago (1933) - his first Broadway production was Call Me Ziggy (1937), The Hot Mikado (1939), Star and Garter (1942), Something for the Boys (1943), Mexican Hayride (1944), Up in Central Park (1945), As the Girls Go (1948), and Michael Todd's Peep Show (1950). His fame came from marrying Elizabeth Taylor and producing Around the World in 80 Days in the process which was named after him TODD-AO.

ALFRED LUNT (1892-1980) AND LYNN FONTANNE (1887-1983)

I feel so fortunate to have seen the Lunts perform twice at the Royal Alexander, in The Visit and The Great Sebastians, considering these were their farewell performances. Mr. Lunt was considered one of the greatest actors of his generation. Ms. Fontanne was one of the great ladies of the American stage, with a throaty contralto voice. She came to America from England in 1910, but did not settle in the U.S. permanently until 1916. He studied to be an architect but gave it up when the acting bug bit him in Boston at the Castle Square Theatre stock company. He later toured with actress Lillie Langtry and Margaret Anglin. He first appeared on Broadway in 1917 in Romance and Arabella, but it was Clarence (1919) that brought him recognition. In 1922 he married Lynn Fontanne and rarely performed without her, throughout their careers. Their great triumphs together were The Guardsman (1924) which was also filmed, The Second Man (1927), The Doctor's Dilemma (1927), Elizabeth the Queen (1930), Reunion in Vienna (1931), Design for Living (1933), Idiot's Delight (1936), Amphitryon 38, The Seagull (1938), There Shall Be No Night (1940), The Pirate (1942), O Mistress Mine (1946), I Know My Love (1949), Quadrille (1954), The Great Sebastians (1956), and The Visit (1958). Mr. Lunt possessed a very distinguished voice.

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An opera in three acts, written by Janacek. It was first presented in Prague in 1916 and played the Met in 1924. It is his most popular opera, but is not performed often, even though the plot is most interesting. Laca, jealous that Jenufa loves his half-brother Steva, disfigures her face with a knife. She gives birth in secret to Steva's child, and when Steva refuses to marry her, her foster mother secretly kills the child. Laca and Jenufa's wedding celebrations are interrupted by the discovery of the child's body. The crime is confessed and all is forgiven

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