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HALL BURNS MOVIE STAR, SELF AT THE N.T. STAKE. In September, Hall began rehearsing Jean Seberg with a score by Marvin Hamlisch, book by Julian Barry and lyrics by Christopher Adler (all Americans). There were reports of backstage turmoil. The leading actress sprained her ankle, a leading actor broke his, and the choreographer was replaced. There were complaints that the National, with its government annuity of some $9 million, was underwriting a "Broadway tryout" (Hall may direct a New York company of Jean Seberg early...
...London, is a powerful singer if not a sexual dynamo in Marilyn, a ludicrous, lugubrious bio-opera about Marilyn Monroe. (Doomed movie stars are now the musical rage: a different Monroe show is coming to Broadway next season, and the National Theater is mounting a musical by Marvin Hamlisch based on the life and death of Jean Seberg.) Ben Kingsley, the R.S.C. stalwart who won an Oscar playing Gandhi, has brought his one-man show on 19th century Actor Edmund Kean to the West End. Griff Rhys Jones, who mugged his way to TV celebrity...
...CONSISTENTLY CATCHY and poignant score, with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban. James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante still holds up. Only one number falls flat: "And..." which was rightly omitted from the best-selling album, is a dragging combination of monologue and medley that leaves the viewer cold...
...never again visit her. Potter heads back to Jessica's Halston bedroom and Zabar-stocked kitchen. A memorable camera shot pans their connubial bed as they make alex-comfort love while Candice chirps again--a disco duck on quaaludes. By now, the unhappy marriage of her voice and Marvin Hamlisch's music no longer amuses; it sickens--both us and Potter...
...report card, Hamlisch's music and Sager's lyrics score no higher than Bs, but they possess a finger-snapping vitality that turns explosive in the title number. A well-earned A goes to Douglas W. Schmidt's stunningly sophisticated sets, Tharon Musser's evocative lighting and Ann Roth's clever costumes. Great joy has come to Shubert Alley...