The latest movie to be turned into a Broadway musical? Legally Blonde, which is due to hit stages in 2005. “It will join a string of hit movies to make it to the stage, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Full Monty. Tony award-nominated Jerry Mitchell will direct and choreograph the stage version, film studio MGM said.”
Tag: 06.14.04
Dance: Stars Of Tomorrow
Where are the dance stars of tomorrow coming from? Likely the School of American Ballet. And a good place to go potential-spotting is the school’s annual workshop performances, writes Tobi Tobias. “Perhaps never again in their lives will they be so vulnerable and so beautiful. The perilous beauty of adolescence is evident everywhere at Workshop, all the more vivid because of the young performers’ unswerving dedication to the standards of mature professional artistry.”
Music Falling Off Public Radio
“Music–not merely classical but also jazz, folk, blues, and bluegrass, once staples of public radio programming–is slowly being withdrawn from the public airwaves. The number of noncommercial stations identified as “classical” has been cut in half since 1993, while the number of noncommercial news-talk stations has tripled. From 1995 to 2002, the number of locally generated classical music hours on public radio declined roughly 10 percent, even as the number of public radio stations greatly increased; meanwhile, over the same period, the number of news-talk hours rose by more than 150 percent. As the tracking study researchers wrote in their report, with unseemly enthusiasm: ‘Local classical music just sits there, while NPR news-talk races ahead’.”