Month: October 2013

SPIDER-MAN. TURN OFF THE DARK, Music and Lyrics by Bono and The Edge. Book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa at the Foxwoods Theatre, 42nd Street, New York. “Kevin, you saw SPIDERMAN?”, some of my friends have asked with sceptical bewilderment. Well, yes!  How could I not want to see SPIDER-MAN? Besides being the current musical theatre “object of fascination” by those musical theatre nuts we all know, it is a work by Julie Taymor, the ‘genius’ of THE LION KING and the highly theatrical and original films: TITUS (1999), FRIDA (2002) AND ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (2007) THE…

THE GLASS MENAGERIE was Tennessee Williams’ first success on Broadway. It was in 1944, and catapulted Mr Williams into the rarefied sphere of iconic artists, which he ably affirmed again and again, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1948, Pulitzer Prize) and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1955, Pulitzer Prize) were to come. Laurette Taylor, the original interpreter of Amanda, in that production, built a legendary aura around that role, and it has been, subsequently, the object for actors of a certain age, to pursue. On my last visit to New York I saw the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of THE…