Webber's Broadway Sunset Boulevard had closed at a loss two days earlier (his birthday), his Whistle Down the Wind closed out of town in February, and his Really Useful Company recently announced substantial layoffs.
In accepting his award, Webber drily noted, "Thank heaven there wasn't a song in The English Patient, that's all I can say." Otherwise, most theatre folk were swept away in The English Patient's nine-Oscar tidal wave (including Best Picture) at the 69th annual Academy Awards, whose ABC-TV telecast ran three and a half hours. (Length 20:37) (PICTURED: John Drea and Yourtana Sulaiman as Marc and Berta Chagall in James Sherman's Chagall In School, directed by Georgette Verdin, Grippo Stage Company.Andrew Lloyd Webber, who hasn't been having his best year, finally got a break March 24, winning the 1997 Oscar for Best Original Song for "You Must Love Me," which he wrote with Tim Rice for the movie version of Evita. Chagall in School follows the the young artist Marc Chagall struggling to find his voice amidst political, cultural, and artistic revolution – which, not coincidentally, happened almost exactly 100 years ago – James discusses the impulse that led to the play's creation how plays like Chagall in School come to be: the mixed message of people encouraging you to become a playwright after seeing you act how the first draft of any play is simply the author improvising the relationship between revolutions in painting and revolutions in acting and finally, how the audience is the crucial – and final – component for a brand new play. James Sherman is a founding member of the Tony-winning Victory Gardens Theater’s Playwrights Ensemble and his new play, Chagall in School, opens this weekend at Theater Wit in Chicago, in a production by the Grippo Stage Company, directed by Georgette Verdin. What happens next is the action of this very funny play, which opens this week at the Nottingham Playhouse, and Adrian talks about about how his adaptation came to be, and how many versions he's had to learn the challenges of wearing both his actor and playwright hats his successful preview at The Berko Speakeasy finding (and imitating) Bennett’s voice the value of getting microphones in the toilet the privilege of getting to sit on the other side of the table and the enormous satisfaction of challenging one's self to come up with the goods. Two-time Olivier Award winning actor Adrian Scarborough has written The Clothes They Stood Up In, an adaptation of the novella of the same name by Alan Bennett (The Madness of King George, Talking Heads, The History Boys, and The Lady in the Van), about a mild-mannered couple (played by Adrian and Sophie Thompson) who return home from the opera one evening to find their flat completely bare and every single item they own stolen. Buy TicketsĪddress: 10075 Commons St, Lone Tree. Buy TicketsĪddress: 400 Robinson St, Basalt. Buy TicketsĪddress: 2310 Colts Neck Rd, Reston. Buy TicketsĪddress: 2401 N Main St, Fort Worth. Buy TicketsĪddress: 25 Carlisle St, Gettysburg. Tour: The Complete History of Comedy (abridged)Īddress: 403 S. Buy TicketsĪddress: 750 E Shaw Ln, East Lansing. Buy TicketsĪddress: 951 College Ave, Jasper. Buy Ticketsīloomington Center for the Performing ArtsĪddress: 600 N East St, Bloomington. Leach Theatre at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyĪddress: Castleman Hall, 400 W 10th St #103, Rolla. Tour: Hamlet’s Big Adventure! (a prequel)
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