Jessryn said: "little_sally said: "Isn't Jeanine Tesori also writing an opera of Lincoln in Bardo?"
According to the article I found Tesori is composing the opera Grounded and the other female composer the Met commissioned, Missy Mazzoli, is working on Lincoln in the Bardo."
I remember hearing Tesori was also writing an opera about Eugene O’Neill with a libretto by Tony Kushner.
I just gave the show a listen, and I'm really not a fan. The songs are okay, I guess, but they have no dramatic weight on the story. The music (and often the lyrics) feel so interchangeable. It feels like Erin McKeown wrote 20 songs, put their titles in a hat, and drew one out every time the bookwriter said they needed a song.
I went to look up Andre DeShield's Tony speech today, and all the acceptance speeches and performances (except for the awards that weren't presented live) have been scrubbed from the Tony Awards channel. I've noticed they do this every year a few months after the awards. Anyone know why they do this?
Based on those numbers, do you think China Doll recouped? 12 million dollars is a lot of money, and even with Pacino's paycheck, it's only two actors and one set, so it's a low operating cost. They had to at leas
I've heard the play is terrible, but it might have a chance based on names alone. If Malkovich stays with it, they could get enough pre-sales to justify a run.
There was an article about playwrights, and counting number of performances, Mamet is the most produced playwright of the 21st century, ahead of Arthur Miller and Shakespeare. He hasn't written a good play in 10 years (and hasn't written a great one in 24), but he's one of the few playwrights working tod
Best: Three Tall Women. I'm a student at ISU, from which Laurie Metcalf graduated, and she came out and took a picture with all of us and talked for a few minutes about school and stuff.
Worst: Not for a show I saw, but I was in the opera Cosi fan tutte, and the student body hated it (a fact I've learned to live with - the show has some really problematic depictions of women), but I would literally see dozens of classmates in the audience every night
(Disclaimer: Some of these composers, I've only seen one show or no shows from, so my picks may be lacking in some spots. Also, my favorite shows will be based on the work from the composer. Dear Evan Hansen is my favorite musical ever, but that's more because of Steven Levenson's writing than Pasek and Paul's songs, so my pick for their show will be Dogfight)
Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oklahoma (only show I've seen) - Cain't Say No
