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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 19th century thriller novella by Robert Louis Stevenson about one man’s obsession with the violent conflicts between good and evil aspects within the same man . That man is not Frank Wildhorn, though it could be. Wildhorn and his faithful English companion Leslie Bricusse have been laboring in the laboratory for a couple of decades, trying to capture a musical theatre version of Stevenson’s tale. As has been the pattern in the past, a long period of peaceful silence has been burst by a new eruption, this one at the…
When David Mamet’s Glengary Glen Ross first exploded on the stage, its nonstop profane dialogue left many in a state of shock. Some 28 years later, this now ubiquitous vocabulary gurgles from the 7-year-old youngsters on Comedy Central’s South Park as well as from the cuddly, singing puppets from Broadway’s Avenue Q. The current La Jolla Playhouse production of Glengary Glen Ross reminded me that coarse language is the least distressing aspect of Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the internecine office warfare of five rapacious Chicago real estate agents. I would list mendacious manipulation, contemptuous regard of humanity, and unrestrained…
The mysteries of the living theatre conjure romance for everybody but there’s no audience more receptive than the theatre workers themselves. Those giving their lives to the art live with the endless urge to show just how splendid the rewards can be, despite the cost and the sacrifices. Just consider a quick, top-of-the-head list of examples: The Producers, Fame, Kiss Me Kate, Light Up the Sky, The Royal Family, Speed-the-Plow, A Chorus Line, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Fantasticks, Phantom of the Opera, Noises Off, Follies, The Sunshine Boys… (deep breath). Sometimes even the bosses get celebrated.…
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