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...Well, Broadway can still surprise, and I found "Thou Shalt Not," which opened last week and was eviscerated by most of the critics, better than I had expected. To be sure, the prospects for a musical this dark - a young woman conspires with her lover to murder her husband - were never very bright, especially so in a dark year like this one. But even in cheerier times, "Thou Shalt Not" would have needed strong critical support to survive, and the show now appears doomed. But before it departs for the graveyard of Broadway bombs, it deserves a little credit...
...entire second act paralyzed by a stroke; and yet another doesn't come to life until after he's dead. That "Thou Shalt Not" doesn't become a complete downer is a tribute largely to the flavorful music of Harry Connick Jr., the jazzman making his first foray into Broadway. Connick does best, not surprisingly, with the Dixieland-style numbers meant to evoke the period. But he also shows impressive range, with Sondheim-esque character songs, a sweet children's ditty ("Tug Boat"), and the jabbing bass notes that italicize the moments of violence and sexual heat...
DIED. HERBERT ROSS, 74, choreographer turned film director who collaborated with Neil Simon on five films; in New York City. He jump-started the career of Barbra Streisand in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale and, in 1977, got Oscar-nominated performances out of Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine in Turning Point and Marsha Mason in The Goodbye Girl...
...1970s' "Brazilian Miracle," a program that briefly turned his country's economy, which depends mainly on exports of coffee, sugar and cocoa, into the eighth-largest in the world. DIED. HERBERT ROSS, 74, director, producer and choreographer; in New York City. Ross cemented his reputation as a Broadway directing talent while still in his twenties before moving to Hollywood, where he often collaborated with writer Neil Simon and producer Ray Stark, churning out hit films such as The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Turning Point (1977) and Steel Magnolias (1989). AWARDED. To the U.N. and its Secretary-General, KOFI ANNAN...
...inspired as many classic tunes - there?s a whole songbook for almost every major street, avenue and neighborhood. Irving Berlin, the man who wrote "God Bless America" also wrote "Harlem on My Mind." George M. Cohan captured the energy of the Great White Way with "Give My Regards to Broadway." (There?s also "On Broadway," and numerous other homages to the area). When it comes to the Big Apple, even the public transportation system has received tribute in song, in the form of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn?s brash but velvety "Take the ?A? Train...