E.A. Hoppé: “Like most of the artists who sketched or painted him, I had to be satisfied with glimpses of him obtained either from the stage wings or by hanging about in draughty corridors. When eventually he sat to me, I found him the least cooperative of all other members of the Ballet. I actually had to ‘waylay’ him.”
Tag: 03.13.11
Woody Allen On His Relationship With His Stepdaughter-Turned-Wife
“Yes, yes, she’s never taken me seriously really. And to this day – you know I just left her now – she sees me as a complainer, a hypochondriac, a kind of idiot savant. She thinks that I’m very good at what I do and absolutely terrible at everything else. And she’s probably not far off.”
Arthur Laurents Revokes Permission for Streisand Gypsy Film
“The much-talked about Gypsy musical film project that envisions Barbra Streisand as Mama Rose is not going to happen, according to playwright-director Arthur Laurents, one of the rights holders to the work.”
Where Are The Women Composers?
Yes there are more. Still…
How To Succeed In Theatre
“Don’t shy away from politics, religion or other tinderboxes. In my experience, theater people will forgive a noble flop, but perfunctory dullness is an unpardonable sin.”
London Theatre Critic Explores the State of the Art in Berlin
Michael Billington: “I came to Berlin eager to learn about the current issues. What impact is the national obsession with immigration having on theatre? How is drama surviving in the current economic climate? And to what extent is theatre still director-dominated?” (But first he had to go see The Blue Angel.)
Hugh Martin, Songwriter for Meet Me in St. Louis, Dead at 96
The 1944 MGM musical, which featured the three Judy Garland standards “The Trolley Song,” “The Boy Next Door” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “was recognized for its sparkling score, which brought a fresh complexity to the Hollywood musical.”
Shakespeare’s Final Collaboration Reappears (Or Does It?)
“Though The Tempest has been long acknowledged as William Shakespeare’s final work, in the last several decades many scholars have accepted that he collaborated with John Fletcher on at least three plays.” The last of them, Cardenio, believed lost for almost four centuries, “has reappeared, in a much-disputed form, at [New York’s] Classic Stage Company.”
Tormented Choreographer Javier de Frutos Finds Salvation in (An Actual) Fairy Tale
“What do you do when your last major show has been drowned out by boos from the stalls, called ‘ill-conceived and barkingly offensive’ by the critics, and banned by the BBC? How do you return to work when – because of that scandal – death threats have been left on your phone, you’ve been hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, and spent a year unemployed?”
Detroit Symphony: Even During Strike, People Are Giving Money To Orchestra
“The report also cited a 90-percent increase in the number of individual, foundation and corporate donors, from 1,629 last year to 3,090.”