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...Ghost World (that goofy disco clip, from the 1965 film Gumnaam) and the art-house hit Monsoon Wedding (the dance that brings a fractious family together). Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood-themed West End musical with an irresistible crossover score by top Indian composer A R Rahman, is headed to Broadway. But can the real thing make it here? Can Americans open up to the baroque beatitudes of Bollywood cinema...
...Richard Rodgers, the Broadway composer whose centenary was celebrated with the fireworks of theatrical huzzahs on June 28th, enjoyed long collaborations with the two most prominent lyricists of the American musical. He worked with his first partner, Lorenz Hart, from 1919 until Hart's death, at 48, in 1943. And he teamed with Oscar Hammerstein II from the epochal "Oklahoma!" in 1943 to Hammerstein's death...
...young man of ravenous intelligence, he was well-schooled and smartly self-taught. He attended Columbia University, where, he said, he "majored in Varsity Shows" - those larkish musical comedies, written mostly by undergraduates, that occasionally attracted the attention of the producers whose offices were 70 blocks further down Broadway...
...Carousel" to the 1959 "The Sound of Music" - which has proved so durable that what originally was kitsch endures as camp, in the sing-along movie version that so enthralled Londoners a couple of years ago. On stage, the R&Ham shows are still playing ("Oklahoma!" is on Broadway now) and will keep playing ("Flower Drum Song" opens in October...
...Hart, he plays where harps are just the thing. A new version of "The Boys from Syracuse," which opens on 42nd Street next month, is Broadway's first R&Hart revival since "On Your Toes" in 1983-84. Why has no producer brought back "Babes in Arms," the original let's-put-the-show-on-right-here musical whose score contains "Where or When," "I Wish I Were in Love Again," "My Funny Valentine," "Johnny One-Note" and "The Lady Is a Tramp"? Why has no canny director secured the rights to a couple dozen R&Hart hits, slapped...