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...time to start worrying about the dumbing down of the Broadway musical? The trend is alarming. Say what you will about the Brit-pop musicals that dominated Broadway in the 1980s and '90s, but shows like Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera at least had big ambitions and tried to engage the audience emotionally. The Broadway hits of the past few years have been of a different, more frivolous sort. Most of them are aimed at kids (The Lion King), or they hark back to old-fashioned eras with tongue planted in cheek (42nd Street, Thoroughly Modern...
...fitting that the big, bubble-headed new musical Hairspray is about to become Broadway's next huge hit. Its hype has been building for months, ever since a critically praised tryout in Seattle. Advance ticket sales have hit $14 million, one of the highest in Broadway history...
...American Bandstand- like TV dance show, Hairspray takes us back to the era everyone loves to make fun of, the early 1960s. In theater-coiffure terms, we're in the sweet spot between Grease and Hair. Movie composer Marc Shaiman (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) makes his Broadway debut with a score that skillfully mimics the era's perky pop ditties, and director Jack O'Brien has put together a slick, high-spirited production. Add to that a politically correct story line about a girl who fights to integrate the dance show, and you have an unbeatable combination: desegregation...
...living, so he continued at what people paid him (very well) to do, which was to fill the space between prose and ads with verse that was alternately and sometimes simultaneously cheerious and sneerious. He wrote children's books, screenplays and a hit song ("Speak Low") for the Broadway show "One Touch of Venus," But his bread-and-butter, which after a while was caviar and Dom Perignon, was magazine work in the light-verse genus. In a 40-year career he wrote for Life and Look, for Harper's and Harper's Bazaar, for Woman's Day and Playboy...
...approach 20%. They often suffer for a decade before their condition is diagnosed, and for years more before it is properly treated. "If you don't catch it early on," says Dr. Demitri Papolos, research director of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation and co-author of The Bipolar Child (Broadway Books, 1999), "it gets worse, like a tumor." Heaping this torment on an adult is bad enough; loading it on a child is tragic...