Archive for June, 2009
West Side Story, Part Uno
In a graceful Third Act move, librettist and director Arthur Laurents decided to stage his massive hit West Side Story in a less candied-up version for a post-9/11 New York. Grit returns, and the new Masterworks Broadway recording certainly captures that—commencing with an open throttle reading of the prologue replete with racial epithets in [...]
Schizophrenia and Me
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In the last few days I’ve been listening to a slightly older Sony release—Danny Elfman’s Serenada Schizophrenia, which I [...]