Word: ziegfeld
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...campy, shameless best, the Broadway Beauty brings to mind Busby Berkeley movies, Radio City Music Hall spectacles, the Ziegfeld Follies and Fourth of July at Disney World. You may be amused, you may be appalled, but you cannot fail to be agape. The one thing this riot of color and noise does not bring to mind is the modern Broadway musical, which can delight in scenery and special effects but is most concerned with evoking emotion and telling a story...
...acquire the last private buildings on the block (since 1990, $185 million has been spent buying up all the others), and officials confirmed that the Walt Disney Co. is all but recruited to renovate and stage live performances in the New Amsterdam Theater, the grand Art Nouveau landmark where Ziegfeld had his Follies. "It is the deal that we all dreamed about," says one of the project's masterminds. "When somebody like ((Disney chairman)) Michael Eisner comes in, everybody follows...
...Dime-Store Ziegfeld...
...deliberate throwback to the aesthetic described in one of its lyrics as "tall dames and low comedy." Full of loud and tuneful music, skimpy costumes, tireless dancers, ageless baggy-pants comics, chutzpah and pizazz, the show celebrates the life and craft of producer Mike Todd, a dime-store Ziegfeld best remembered these days as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's eight husbands. That biographical fact is a little inconvenient for the narrative, which builds to a reconciliation with a prior wife, film star Joan Blondell. But in its corny, cheerily brainless way, the show is a charmer...
...WILL ROGERS FOLLIES. Tommy Tune's staging and choreography capture the splash-and-dazzle Ziegfeld extravaganzas of the teens and '20s, and Keith Carradine engagingly replicates the rope-twirling humorist who starred in them. But Will Rogers, the biggest multimedia star of his time, proves of little interest today, and every enduring thing he ever said has long since has been quoted to tedium...