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...play debuted on Broadway in 1951 and won accolades from The New York Times, which called it "extraordinarily skillful." It was made into a movie...
...says Mellencamp from his Florida recording studio. "So we've found some sort of brotherhood in that. He's got the story written, and I've got half a dozen songs written, so we're on our way." The untitled project won't open on Broadway, but Mellencamp hopes that's where it will end up. Meanwhile, they're learning by doing. "We're still scratching our heads trying to figure out where the songs go. We don't really want to ask anybody, and we don't want a book on how to do it. We just want...
...actors and producers expertly impaled on Frank Rich's pen during his 1980-93 run as "the Butcher of Broadway" (a.k.a. the drama critic for the New York Times), there are, in his new memoir, a couple of bombshells: Rich has a heart, and that heart loves the theater passionately and needily. Ghost Light (Random House; 311 pages; $24.95) is really two memoirs. The first is about--surprise!--a troubled childhood. The second is a tender reminiscence of the American theater of the '50s and '60s. Where Ghost Light often excels is where the two meet: the critic's evolving...
Rich discovered Broadway young, wearing out the sound tracks of South Pacific and The Pajama Game on the hi-fi with his parents: "The music, our shared affection for it, became a private language of the afternoon, a whole vocabulary of joy." But when Rich was seven, his parents split up, a stigmatizing act in 1950s suburban Washington, D.C. His mother was remarried, to a volatile lawyer who beat Rich and broke her down into sad resignation. As he sought the escape of the theater, Rich's love of the stage flowered--abetted, ironically, by his stepfather, who subsidized...
...Like angels, they're brought into our lives to teach us something we didn't know or to help us see the world in some new way. Having those experiences from 14 to 18 changed my life. Now I'm paying it forward." Besides his continuing work with Camp Broadway, aimed at getting students to the theater, he is acting as host at a benefit for retirees at the Motion Picture and TV Home in Calabasas, Calif., this month...