Word: librettist
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...LIBRETTIST: DAVID HENRY HWANG...
...LIBRETTIST: THULANI DAVIS...
...Finn advanced Marvin's story in March of the Falsettos, which begins with Marvin envisioning his old and new lives merging into one big, happy family and ends with him alone. The narrative was shaped with director James Lapine, who vaulted from that into becoming Sondheim's director and librettist on his two most recent Broadway musicals, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods. But Finn could not seem to capitalize on his new opportunities...
...revues of recent decades. The emotions in Five Guys aren't as rich and varied, the performances aren't as dazzling, and the lyrics aren't as memorable. But Ain't Misbehavin' is long gone, and Five Guys is here now. Second, Five Guys isn't English. Its creators, librettist Clarke Peters and director-choreographer Charles Augins, are Americans, as are the half a dozen actors. The sensibility is very 1940s American...
Wagner was, in every sense, a man of his century. Besides being a composer, librettist and conductor, he was a tireless writer and proselytizer on subjects as disparate as revolutionary politics, vivisection and racialism. The little man from Leipzig was one of the leading anti-Semitic theorists of his day, venting his views in such pamphlets as Jewry in Music and Heroism and Christianity. Like other prominent anti-Semites, Wagner blamed the Jews for ) most of society's (and his own) ills and offered a solution. "Bear in mind," he exhorted Jews, "that there is but one redemption from...