The sheer hell of working with Jerome Robbins
The nice folks at Yale University Press sent me an advance copy of “The Leonard Bernstein Letters” which they will be publishing on Oct. 29. I’ve only skimmed the surface of the massive volume which is...
View ArticleRent it now: ‘Forget the Film, Watch the Titles!’
What would the early James Bond movies have been like without the boost they got from those fantastic, over-the-top title sequences by the late great Maurice Binder? The combination of the sexy...
View Article‘Altitude’: Jose Llana’s life in the theater
The amazingly versatile singer-actor Jose Llana celebrated two decades of work in the New York theater with a concert at Lincoln Center last year. The show was perfectly bookended by performances of...
View Article‘It’s About Time’: spectacular standards
I’ve been crazy about the singer-actress Karen Mason ever since I saw her in the fantastic off Broadway Kander and Ebb show “And the World Goes Round” in 1991. In that musical revue, Mason proved her...
View ArticleDepp story recalls earlier, unfiltered era
The current, devastating Rolling Stone piece about Johnny Depp has triggered a huge response, with at least one observer calling it “an advance obit.” The portrait of an isolated, drug-addled and...
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