The Sound of Music.Broadway revival of The Sound of Music produced by Hallmark sounds like it should cater to Disney-fed families who couldn't get tickets to The Lion King. Surprisingly, this Sound of Music is much less icky than you'd expect. Director Susan H. Schulman Susan H. Schulman is an American theater director. Intent on a career as an actress, Schulman studied drama at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, New York in the 1960s. She attended Yale University on a playwrighting fellowship, graduating with a Master's Degree. , who staged the much-praised 1989 revival of Sweeney Todd, is a real artist who demands high standards in acting, design, and music. Heading a uniformly talented cast, Rebecca Luker is an excellent and honest Maria. Though she's unlikely to inspire a generation of budding gay boys to sing, "I am 16 going on 17," grown-up grown-up adj. 1. Of, characteristic of, or intended for adults: grown-up movies; a grown-up discussion. 2. lesbian children may identify with Brigitta (Tracy Alison Walsh), the shrewd truth-teller among the von Trapp children Biography Sofia, Melanie, Amanda, and Justin von Trapp are the decedents of the famous Trapp Family Singers. They are the grandchildren of Werner von Trapp (1915-2007) and great-grand children of Georg Ritter von Trapp and Maria von Trapp. . And musical theater queens will appreciate the opportunity to reevaluate Rodgers and Hammerstein's last great collaboration -- noticing, perhaps, that it's basically The King and I with swastikas. In keeping with the current Broadway trend toward overplaying the dark subtext sub·text n. 1. The implicit meaning or theme of a literary text. 2. The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text and interpreted by an actor in performance. of World War II dramas, Schulman has the von Trapps crooning "Edelweiss" in front of a Nazi flag. It certainly has the effect of turning up the narrative heat underneath the show that brought us raindrops on roses and whiskers See metal whiskers. on kittens. |
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