Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes on rewriting The Hills of California for Broadway – and comparisons to Gypsy
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Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes on rewriting The Hills of California for Broadway – and comparisons to Gypsy
West Side Story’s true lost author was Peter Gennaro, who choreographed “America” and all of the Sharks’ steps in the “Dance at the Gym.” Jerome Robbins, apparently foreseeing how long the show’s art would prove, made Gennaro sign a contract including the line “You hereby assign to me any and all rights in, and to any and all choreographic material
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always thought of it this way: “Children and Art” explained the show and “Lesson #8” explained George.
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I would say be open enough to understand what everybody is doing and why they’re doing it. Don’t look at exactly what they’re doing. Your job is to find out why they’re doing that. JACK LEE (Musical Director of nine Broadway shows)
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Nineteen twenty-three was one of Broadway’s brightest years. John Barrymore played Hamlet just a few blocks away from where his sister Ethel was appearing in Romeo and Juliet. Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author also opened. Most critics cited Galsworthy’s Loyalties as the best play of the season.