GIVE 'EM THE OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE

APRIL 1999 (Volume5)

© 1998 all rights reserved worldwide by Clair Sedore

National Library of Canada ISSN 1481-7934

(C) 1998,Clair Sedore, Editor

Peter Poullos, Assistant Editor

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THE NEW "CHICAGO"; JERRY HERMAN; MOTLEY; MARTHA GRAHAM; JOSHUA LOGAN; EUGENE O'NEILL; CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE; JULIE HARRIS; MADAMA BUTTERFLY; FLORENZ ZIEGFELD

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A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-CLAIR SEDORE; IRVING BERLIN; JO MIELZINER; GEORGE BALANCHINE; MICHAEL BENNETT; ROBERT ANDERSON; HELEN HAYES THEATRE; MARY MARTIN; NABUCCO

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THE NEW "CHICAGO"

In 1975 I had the privilege of seeing Kander and Ebb's Chicago at the 46th Street Theatre three times over a two week period. It was summer and a lot of the stars were taking summer vacations and new actors/actresses were stepping into the stars' roles. I was fortunate to see the original cast with Gwen Verdon,Chita Rivera,Jerry Orbach,Barney Martin and Mary McCarty. The cast were all wonderful, and you felt like the parts were written especially for them. Gwen Verdon was having health problems, and before the wonderful Lenora Nemetz (star of "Working" and "Up in One" with the multi-talented Peter Allen), took over the role, Liza Minnelli had a crack at it. She interpreted the role very differently, not trying to be Ms. Verdon, but a whole new character. And Ms. Nemetz again wove a different interpretation of Velma Kelly. Now, almost twenty five years later, Chita Rivera takes over Gwen Verdon's role, and what a sensation she is. It is like a completely different show, scanty costumes (even scantier than the original), and much more sexuality in the script and the characters. At first I was not sure that I was going to like the production. It started very slowly, but when it began to build, it was sensational, to say the least. Ms. Rivera has not seemed to age at all during those twenty five years. At 66, she certainly does not appear like a Grandmother, or even someone's mother for that matter. She is a leggy,sensuous woman, who can not only dance well, but can belt out a song. After Chicago does its stint in Las Vegas, Chita Rivera has a one woman show (with some male dancers of course) planned for Broadway. She is a legend.

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COMPOSERS - JERRY HERMAN (1932- ) Born in New York, with no formal musical training, in 1961 he wrote his first musical for Broadway, "Milk and Honey." His second musical was the smash Hello Dolly (64), followed by another smash hit Mame (66). These were followed by three critical failures Dear World (69), Mack and Mabel (74), and The Grand Tour (79). Each of his failures have wonderful scores, and the recordings alone are worth the price of admission. Dear World starred Angela Lansbury, Mack and Mabel, the great Robert Preston and the wonderful Bernadette Peters, and the Grand Tour Joel Grey. I saw two out of three and adored them. In 1983 he returned with La Cage aux Folles, and in 1985 Jerry's Girls.

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PLAYWRIGHTS - EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) American dramatist, considered by many to be the most important writer in the U.S. Eugene was born in New York City, son of actor James O'Neill (1847-1920) so a life in the theatre was already established, just a different direction. From 1915 he lived between New York and Provincetown where he worked with the Provincetown Players. His plays include bound East for Cardiff (16); Hairy Ape (22); Beyond the Horizon (20), which won a Pulitzer Prize; Emperor Jones (20); Strange Interlude (27) which also won a Pulitzer Prize, but is in 9 acts, with a great many asides to the audience, and is rarely performed today. I was fortunate enough to see a production on Broadway at the Martin Beck, in 1963, with an unbelievable cast including Jane Fonda, Betty Field, Geoffrey Horne, William Prince, Franchot Tone, Ben Gazzara, Geraldine Page, Pat Hingle, Richard Thomas; Mourning Becomes Electra (31), which is probably one of his greatest plays; Ah Wilderness (32); Moon of the Caribbees (18), which is also rarely done; Anna Christie (21) and another Pulitzer Prize; All God's Chillun Got Wings (24); Desire Under the Elms (24); Great God Brown (26); Lazarus Laughed (26); Marco Millions (28); Dynamo (29); Days Without End (34); Touch of the Poet (58); More Stately Mansions (unfinished) (first production 67); Iceman Cometh (46); Long Day's Journey Into Night (56) a masterpiece; Moon For the Misbegotten (57). In 1936 Eugene O'Neill received the Nobel Prize for Literature which is certainly reaching for the top. Because of the complexities of his characters, high schools tend to avoid productions of his plays and it is not until University that one can appreciate his characters wholeheartedly.

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DIRECTORS - JOSHUA LOGAN (1908-1988) Brilliant U.S. director , born in Texarkana, Texas and studied at Princeton, and with Stanislavsky in Moscow. Mr. Logan had a hit with On Borrowed Time (38) which gained him critical acclaim. This was followed by I Married An Angel (38); Knickerbocker Holiday (38); Stars in Your Eyes (39); Morning's At Seven (39); Two For the Show (40); Higher and Higher (40); Charley's Aunt (40); By Jupiter (40); This is the Army (42), followed by such great hits as Annie Get Your Gun (46), John Loves Mary (47), Mister Roberts (1948), and the brilliant production of South Pacific (49), Picnic (53), World of Suzie Wong (58), and a tour of A Musical Evening with Joshua Logan, which we were fortunate to see at the BAYVIEW PLAYHOUSE, after having been cancelled previously due to Mr. Logan's ill health. There was a line referring to Mr. Logan's direction, "where naked bodies go, like Joshua Logan show." Some of his later productions were referred to as "heavy handed." Mr. Logan is probably one of the greatest stage directors we have had.

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DESIGNERS - MOTLEY- A design firm of three designers, Audrey Sophia Harris, Margaret F. Harris and Elizabeth Montgomery who did both sets and costumes for many major hits like Man For All Seasons, Most Happy Fella, Look Homeward Angel, costuming for Kwamina, which premiered at O'Keefe Centre with Brock Peters and Sally Anne Howes, 110 in the Shade, and Baker Street. They are now working in London.

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DANCERS - MARTHA GRAHAM (1893-1991) U.S. dancer ,choreographer,and teacher, born in Pittsburgh, Pa. Ms. Graham was most influential in dance for over 50 years. She studied with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn at their famous Denishawn School, at the wonderful Jacob's Pillow site, still famous for summer dance festivals and summer home of the renowned Boston Ballet. Ms. Graham became director of the dance department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. in 1924. She started her own company and had music especially composed for her by Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Over her life she choreographed more than 150 dance works. She was a brilliant interpreter of Greek mythology and minimal costuming. She retired as a dancer in 1970, but in 1984 at the age of 90, she choreographed Rite of Spring. Many of the principal dancers in the U.S. appeared with the Martha Graham Company for a period of time before forming companies of their own, such great dancers as Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, Lars Lubovitch.

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ACTORS/ACTRESSES - JULIE HARRIS (1925- ) Born in Grosse Point, Michigan, and educated at the Yale School of Drama, Ms. Harris debuted in It's a Gift (1945). After a series of failures, she gained recognition and the critics' praise as Frankie Adams in Member of the Wedding (1950), and as Sally Bowles in I Am A Camera (1951), Madamoiselle Colombe (1954), The Lark (1955), Skyscraper (1965), her only musical, Forty Carats (1968), In Praise of Love (1974), and a one woman show Belle of Amherst (1976) based on Emily Dickinson, Break a Leg (1979) and the West Coast production of On Golden Pond (1980). Ms. Harris is in my books The First Lady of the American Theatre, and we have been privileged to have seen her many times at the Royal Alexandra and as Juliet at the Stratford Festival. I have met her many times at stage doors and she always leaves me in awe. What a gracious lady she is.

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OPERA-MADAMA BUTTERFLY - PUCCINI, Giacomo (1858-1924), Italian composer, Puccini was born Dec. 22, 1858, in Lucca. In 1880 he wrote a mass, Messa di Gloria, his first opera, Le Villi (1884), Edgar (1889), Manon Lescaut (1893), was hailed as the work of a genius. La Bohème (1896), displeased the audience at its Turin premiere, even with Arturo Toscanini conducting. Puccini's other operas include Tosca (1900), and the great Madama Butterfly (1904), which drew hisses at La Scala in Milan on opening night; The Girl of the Golden West (1910), La Rondine (1917), and Il Trittico, a trilogy of one-act operas (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and the comic Gianni Schicchi (1918)). Puccini was working on Turandot when he died, Nov. 29, 1924, in Brussels.

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CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE - Founded in 1950 under the direction of Jose Quintero (see obituaries), in association with Theodore Mann, at a tiny theatre on Sheridan Square, using the new semi-circular seating around a central stage. They opened with Dark of the Moon (51), Summer and Smoke (1952) with the great Geraldine Page brought them glory and helped to get them established. The Iceman Cometh (1956) brought a resurgence of Eugene O'Neill's works. It also helped Jason Robards Jr. to become an established star, and Children of Darkness (1959) brought George C. Scott to the forefold. The Sheridan establishment was demolished in 1960 and the company moved to Bleecker Street, and in 1972 the company opened another theatre uptown. Lately they have been fighting bankruptcy, and the theatres have been closed off and on.

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