Everything's coming up Sondheim.In his 70th year Broadway's genius is at the top of his game Once critics called Stephen Sondheim's music unhummable. How things change. Lately the legendary gay composer has everybody from Nathan Lane Nathan Lane (born February 3, 1956) is a Tony Award- and Emmy Award-winning actor of the stage and screen. Biography Early life Lane was born Joseph Lane in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Irish American Catholic parents. to Carol Burnett Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933 in San Antonio, Texas) is an Emmy Award-winning actress, comedian, singer, dancer, and writer and is known for her long and successful entertainment career. Burnett started her career in New York. singing his tune. Leading the list of this season's Sondheim events is the October New York Theatre Workshop New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is an off-Broadway theatre noted for its acclaimed and innovative productions of new works. Located in New York City’s East Village, it houses a 188-seat theatre for its main productions, and a 75-seat black-box theatre for staged readings and production of Sondheim's first original musical in five years, Wise Guys, set to open on Broadway in spring 2000. The period piece casts Lane as Addison Mizner Addison Mizner (1872 – 1933) was a resort architect born in Benicia, California. Mizner did not have formal training. As a child he traveled around the world with his father, who was the United States minister to Guatemala. , the real-life gay architect whose designs once dazzled Florida's society resort towns. Victor Garber plays his con-man brother Wilson, and Sam Mendes (Cabaret and the touted film American Beauty) directs. Also in November, Burnett joins Bronson Pinchot in a new production of Sondheim's 1993 musical revue Putting It Together. Sondheim frenzy peaks next spring as Patti Lupone sings opposite Bryn Terfel in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Philharmonic's concert staging of Sweeney Todd May 4-6 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall Avery Fisher Hall, located in New York City, is a part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The hall contains 2,738 seats. . Deutsche Gramophon will record the event; the opening-night gala will honor Sondheim's 70th birthday. Meanwhile, Los Angeles hosts the season's biggest surprise: Sondheim has OK'd a gay version of Marry Me a Little, his 1980 tale of two lonely people pining for love. Opening October 15 at the Celebration Theatre, the show runs weekends through December 5. "Sondheim has authorized gay parodies of his work, but this is the first time he's allowed a `straight' gay production," says Steve Gideon, who hatched the concept and who associate produces and stars in the show. "Everyone said, `Great idea--he'll never allow it.' But we explained that the Celebration has a track record of serious gay theater and that we feel that marriage is an issue that's up for gay people right now. Maybe he got the message that we'd really thought it through." Bahr is a freelance writer living in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . |
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