Word: cilento
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this particular production because it was so different from the first national tour, which won my heart and soul five years ago. Perhaps I couldn't stand it because all the qualities that won Tommy five Tony’s in the first place--including scenery, lighting and Wayne Cilento's brilliant choreography--are all gone now. Perhaps I am one of the people McAnuff was referring to, one who feels like she owns the show and can't stand to have it changed...
...social revolutions of the past three decades are acknowledged only through minor modifications. In Wayne Cilento's reconceived choreography for A Secretary Is Not a Toy, the secretaries give their bosses a fine comeuppance, and the all-white cast of the original (which in the 1967 movie version managed to bleach even the streets of Manhattan) has been racially integrated. A black woman (Lillias White as Miss Jones, the boss's formidable secretary) broadens the "brotherhood" in the last big song, The Brotherhood of Man, turning it into a rousing gospel number. These small touches enhance the show's charm...