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...fixture of Kansas City's swing scene, Williams played with Nat King Cole and recorded as a guitarist with Count Basie. He fell into obscurity after World War II and worked as a welder but gained renewed prominence while touring in the 1970s and appearing in the 1998 Broadway revue Black and Blue...
...brash young man seizes the stage of Manhattan's Broadway Theater, sings and dances to a vigorous bhangra and, feeling his rock-star-in-the-making oats, shouts, "Are ya with me, Bombay? ... Are ya with me, New York?" This scene from the new musical Bombay Dreams poses the cultural question of the moment. South Asian pop--Bollywood movies, Indian music and dance, the whole vibrant masala of subcontinental culture--not only enthralls a billion Indians at home but also spans half the world, from Africa and the Middle East to Eastern Europe and the Indian diaspora in Britain...
...billboard outside the Broadway Theatre reads, A R RAHMAN'S BOMBAY DREAMS. That name may mean little to musical-theater devotees, but in the rest of the world it's golden. Like Gershwin or Lennon-McCartney, the name stands for melody, quality, energy, instant hummability--a sound both personal and universal, devouring many older forms and transforming them into something gorgeously...
...which makes Bombay Dreams a big risk for Broadway: a $14 million musical with no stars, a score by a composer famous in most of the world (see box, below) but not in the U.S., and a story set in the Bollywood milieu unknown to Broadway's conservative audience. Producer Andrew Lloyd Webber hired writer Thomas Meehan (The Producers, Hairspray) to cut a lot of in-jokes, pump up the mother love--domesticate the Bollywood beast. Will the transplant work? The show has a $6 million advance; and at a preview last week, the audience, perhaps 25% South Asian, seemed...
This 90s reworking of the Gershwin classic Girl Crazy won rave reviews when it played Broadway a decade ago. Harvard STAGE and Galper & Rubins productions take the reins of this tale of everyman Bobby Child’s quest to find himself through music, which features several Gershwin favorites. Proceeds go to arts education for Boston Youth. Through Saturday May 8th. Tickets $10, $7 for students and seniors. 8 p.m. Agassiz Theatre...