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...Closing after just 16 performances, it became one of Broadway’s most legendary flops. The book by George Furth is still a challenge....
...This changes in the book’s second half — even the prose....
...– Ashley and Claire’s podcast is called Celebrity Memoir Book Club. It’s available wherever you listen....
...Both the record and the book draw from her archives; she found herself updating early compositions and revisiting a memoir she’d been commissioned to write in her twenties....
...This sanctified figure has materialised in the Prince Edward Theatre after packing ’em in on Broadway, where the jukebox musical version of Jackson’s life has grossed more than $180mn since 2021....
...Lilah is on Instagram @lilahrap, where she’s posting a photo of Breen and his burn book. You can email us at lifeandart@ft.com....
...Rare-book dealer Peter Harrington currently has a bound first-edition script of Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along....
..., which was based on a 2002 book....
...I think if we had actually done less AI set building and actually just gone to some of the incredible set builders of Broadway, for $20mn....
...“The Nazis burnt 100mn books and 6mn Jews, and it’s incredible that the origins of Nazism was a book....
...He’s written a ton of books. He’s composed an original ballet score. He won an Oscar. He’s also starred on Broadway before in his hit musical concert, American Utopia....
...It has a very similar script as the original and songs from the Broadway show....
...The evening ends with a nightcap at Hudson Bar and Books: a cigar and an Amaro Montenegro....
...He has collaborated with Brian Eno, the late Tejano singer Selena and dancer Twyla Tharp, written a book of tree diagrams, turned a defunct Manhattan ferry terminal into a playable musical instrument and...
...Typically, new stores have been positioned in trendy, slightly out-of-the-way neighbourhoods, such as on Broadway Market in Hackney, but a new strategy has put Aesop’s latest openings in more commercial...
...Icahn recounted the moment, which involved one of Wall Street’s messiest corporate takeover battles, in a stand-up routine at the famed Manhattan comedy club, Carolines on Broadway. “I’m telling you....
...As film has inspired a couple of Heggie’s operas, and musical comedy at least one other, it seems reasonable to assume that Hollywood and Broadway may be lurking in the background....
...Suzan-Lori is best known for her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog, which was reprised on Broadway in the autumn....
...Casino 171 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002 Good for: Dinner before a night out, a swanky cocktail catch-up with a friend, downtown celeb spotting Not so good for: Walking in and hoping for the best...
...These have included queer and disruptive shows such as Kinky Boots and The Book of Mormon, which went on to define popular culture....
...The original Broadway production, which opened in 2017, won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and, for Yazbek, Best Original Score....
...Even with music by George Fenton and book and lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black (hugely experienced all), this show feels like a pale imitation of the original....
...The production, described by the Evening Standard as “a love letter to theatre”, is based on the dramatic encounter between Richard Burton and John Gielgud when they were making Hamlet on Broadway....
...I’d take a page out of urban activist Jane Jacobs’s book, and consider mixed usage....
...Southampton garden), a lounge in shades of beige with views towards Central Park, a bar (boasting an Urs Fischer video work of Tiffany’s emblematic jewelled bird) and a library full of Tiffany archive books...
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