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Walcott's daily life is hectic. As the co-writer of the book and lyrics for Paul Simon's long-awaited musical The Capeman, he has a Broadway opening this month--an unusually suspenseful opening. The Capeman, which tells the story of Salvador Agron, a Puerto Rican teen who killed two white youths in a Manhattan playground in 1959, has been plagued by a drumbeat of doomsaying in the New York media, last-minute changes and a postponed opening date. The Nobel curse may be chasing Walcott, but his productivity seems unaffected. His most recent book of poetry, The Bounty...
Backers of The Capeman, PAUL SIMON's much ballyhooed musical, are doing their best to spin away the bad word of mouth the Broadway show is getting in previews. Too slow. Too static. Too earnest. In fact, Simon et al. are busy making cuts and changes. He's also writing a new number for star RUBEN BLADES and trying to give the show a much needed boost of energy. Director and choreographer MARK MORRIS is still in charge, but such old hands as MIKE NICHOLS, British director NICHOLAS HYTNER and Simon's buddy LORNE MICHAELS have been called...
...seeming like the right place to more and more pop songwriters. Paul Simon is putting the finishing touches on his first Broadway musical, The Capeman, based on the life of a New York City teen convicted of a gang murder in 1959. Elton John wrote most of the songs for The Lion King, a stage version of the hit movie, opening on Broadway next week. Jimmy Buffett has tried his hand at a musical--Don't Stop the Carnival, which had a successful run last spring in Miami--and so has Randy Newman, whose musical version of Faust is shopping...
...year-olds while wearing a nurse's cape? Sounds like a job for Quentin Tarantino. But it's the work of an artist Bob Dole probably likes much more: PAUL SIMON. The singer-songwriter-ethnographer, who says he's "not generally a fan of musicals," is writing The CapeMan with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and plans to bring it to Broadway next year. In a publicity stunt casting call last week, young a cappella groups competed in a doo-wop contest. The winners, TROY JACK, JAMAL REED, KEN MCKLENDON and JOEDI IMBERT, had the voices for Simon's musical...
...capadero, or capeman, has a more dangerous office. He and his colleagues start an afternoon's entertainment, luring the bull out of his pen by waving before him crimson capes. Later, while dismounted picadors are getting over the fence, the capaderos engage the bull's attention until the coming of the banderilleros...