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From: rjones@CORNELL-IOWA.EDU ("Rick Jones")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: RE: BBC address
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:41:00 GMT

>I need the address of the BBC. I want to get several tapes from
>them on accents of the British Isles. I would like to know if a catalog of tapes
>exists and whether it is on the net. Any help would be greatle appreciated.
>						Jim


Jim --

Unfortunately, it may not really be the BBC whose address you need: I
thought I could walk right to their address, but found only those of
the people who distribute the Sound Effects CD collection and somebody
else who distributes the BBC Shakespeare series on video.  If either
of these addresses or phone numbers would help, let me know.  And if
you *do* find the BBC address, let us all know!

By the way, I have an accent collection record (vinyl) at home -- I
*think* the BBC was involved... is this the same material you're
looking for on tape? (sure would be a great idea!)  I do know that I
didn't buy that record directly from the BBC, so there may be
distributers out there for that as well.  I'll check details on my
recording if you like... just let me know.

Rick Jones
Dept. of Theatre & Communications Studies, Cornell College, Mount
Vernon, IA 52314
Phone: 319-895-4233
FAX: 319-895-4492
e-mail: rjones@cornell-iowa.edu.




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From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: Play help needed 
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:43:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.130831.3996@encore.com>, jpenovic@encore.com (Jan
Penovich) writes:
  [stuff deleted]
> anything about them.  I tried the library and several
> bookstores in the area.  No luck.
> 
> I was wondering if someone could give me  quick summaries of
> the following plays as well as a list of characters (what sex,
> age, etc.).  Thanks.
> 
> Fatal Attraction by Bernard Slade (not the movie)
> 
> A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan
> 
> True West by Sam Shepard (does this have any female parts?)
> 

  Hi.  Our site doesn't seem to be doing much updating of the
  net, so if you have a response to my original posting
  request, please email it to me.  thanks again.

  jan
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From: aku@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Chia-Tso Ku)
Subject: Re: Sunset Boulevard
Keywords: Sunset Boulevard, Lloyd Webber
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:02:37 GMT

In article <6419@ucru2.ucr.edu> pranata@watserv.ucr.edu (Krisanto Pranata) writes:
>Does anyone out there knows what's going on with Lloyd Webber's "Sunset  
>Boulevard?"  Any rumors on when it opens, previews etc?

It is scheduled to open in London in the spring of '93 (March or May,
I don't remember).  The book is by Christopher Hampton (Les Liasons
Dangereuses), lyrics by one of ALW's puppets (Charles Hart or Don Black),
and Harold Prince is tentatively committed to direct.  SB is supposed to
contain the least amount of music of any ALW show, except Jeeves.

Andrew
From: ian.evans@bville.gts.org (Ian Evans) 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: PHANTOM
Date: 17 Aug 92 01:16:00 GMT
Distribution: world
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Reply-To: ian.evans@bville.gts.org (Ian Evans) 

Rumour has it that John F. Buck said to All regarding
Re: PHANTOM...

JF>Can anyone supply info as to where Phantom is playing and the places it
JF>is going to be playing.  I have yet to see it and am interested in
JF>going.

It's playing in Toronto right now at the Pantages theatre.  Jeff Hyslop is
the Phantom while Colm Wilkinson is on vacation.

You can get tickets through any Ticketmaster location or call 416-872-2222.

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From: mec@acsu.buffalo.edu (Marie E. Copertino)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: PHANTOM
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:01:24 GMT
Organization: UB

ian.evans@bville.gts.org (Ian Evans) writes:

|It's playing in Toronto right now at the Pantages theatre.  Jeff Hyslop is
|the Phantom while Colm Wilkinson is on vacation.

|You can get tickets through any Ticketmaster location or call 416-872-2222.

	Do you know when Colm W. will be back in the role?

				Thanks,

-- 
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From: lsh1@cec1.wustl.edu (Lara S. Hughes)
Subject: Evita plot question
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:02:52 GMT


In the American recording of Evita, in the middle of the song "Buenos
Aires", Che has a short monologue which starts out something like:
              On the 9th February 1935, in Buenos Aires - a polo match,
            between a team of leading Argentine players and the touring
            British side....
This part doesn't seem to fit at all.  What does it mean?  Why is it
in there?   I just don't get it.


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Lara Hughes  lsh1@cec2.wustl.edu ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
You mean... you'll put down your rock, and I'll | "And sometimes even music,
put down my sword, and we'll try to kill each   | cannot substitute for tears."
other like civilized people? -The Princess Bride| -Paul Simon,"Cool,Cool River"
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From: baylor@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Subject: Re: 'Science Fiction' Stage Plays
Reply-To: baylor@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:13:19 GMT

In article <d=!npd-@lynx.unm.edu>, lundgren@vesta.unm.edu (Chad Lundgren) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.175234.1@fnalc.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalc.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>I've never heard of it.  At the very least, Mr. Capek is credited
>in many circles as being the first to use the word robot, although
>Asimov probably did more to popularize it.
>
Surely not. Robots were a staple of SF when Asimov was a kid reading it.
(He'd put out an anthology called, "Before the Golden Age" of the
stuff he'd read in his childhood.)
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 19 Aug 1992 13:40:32 CDT
From: David Child <U24421@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre,rec.music.compose
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Opera -- Andrew Lloyd Weber or Ken Hill ???
 <Bt6oy6.3sz@news.udel.edu> <1992Aug18.172327.10665@news.acns.nwu.edu>

James Choi asked how long he has to wait for a 1945 copyright to expire.
Was it a first or second copyright?  What country holds the initial
copyright?  If the copyright is for a U.S. author, you'll have to wait
until the author has been dead for at least 50 years.  Did the author
die the same year the book was copyrighted?  If so, you'll have only a
few more years to wait.  Otherwise, perhaps you should contact the
author, the author's agent, and the publisher's permissions editor . . .
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From: higgins@fnalc.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Subject: Re: 'Science Fiction' Stage Plays
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:52:34 GMT
X-Posted-From: fnalc.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <fk1m62a@lynx.unm.edu>, lundgren@vesta.unm.edu (Chad Lundgren) writes:
> I can't believe nobody's mentioned the play from the man that originated the
> word robot:  Rossum's Universal Robots (a.k.a R.U.R) by Carl Capek.  
[...]
> Anyway, it's an old play, but worth checking out.   

It's pretty awful, if you ask me.  Hard to believe that this was
entertainment in 1924.  Prague must have been a *really* dull town on
a Saturday night.

Chicago's Moebius Theatre did a production of *R.U.R.* last year at
Worldcon.  They put a lot of work into it, but the material just isn't
that interesting, IMHO.

You say you want classics? How about a musical adaptation of *Ralph
124c 41+*?  Now THAT would be entertainment!

Also, nobody in this thread has mentioned the production of *The
Forever War*, adapted by Joe Haldeman and (I think) Stuart Gordon,
done by the Organic Theatre in Chicago.  It was pretty good-- the rump
end, I understand, of a failed project to make a TV movie out of the
book.

Bill Higgins          |  If we can put a man on the Moon, why can't
Fermilab              |  we put a man on the Moon? -- Bill Engfer
higgins@fnal.fnal.gov |  If we can put a man on the Moon, why can't
higgins@fnal.Bitnet   |  we put a woman on the Moon? -- Bill Higgins
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From: alasnik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Lasnik)
Subject: Re: I need "Chicago", help!
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:08:26 GMT

In <1992Aug17.185340.1@pomona.claremont.edu> shyoun@pomona.claremont.edu writes:

>Can anyone help me?  I need to find a recording of the musical
>"Chicago."  Does anyone know of one???

>SARA

Hi Sara!

You might try either Noteworthy Music or CD Direct.
The telephone number for CD Direct is 800 695 CDCD.  I don't recall the 
number for Noteworthy offhand (call Directory Assistance at 800 555 1212)

I've dealt with both companies several times, and have always been extremely
pleased with their service and products!  If they don't have a recording
of Chicago, NO ONE does :-)

--ADAM "KEYS" LASNIK from Northwestern University
  (but home in Sunny Southern Cal for the summer!)
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From: lcpg8275@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sunshine )
Subject: Phantom of the Opera -- Andrew Lloyd Weber or Ken Hill ???
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:38:02 GMT

Hello Phantom fans,

As far as I know, ALW composed most, if not all, the music in The
Phantom of the Opera, with lyrics written by Charles Hart, Richard
Stilgoe, and Mike Batt.

Now, is it true that Ken Hill wrote some different lyrics and hence
a different version of Phantom than ALW's.  Did Ken make use of 
the same ALW music?

If there are two versions of the Phantom, which one is better,
ALW or Ken Hill?

Many thanks in advance for responding!

L.Phoon     (Internet:  L-PHOON@uiuc.edu)
From: greenlaw@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Leila Thomas)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Opera -- Andrew Lloyd Weber or Ken Hill ???
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:09:16 GMT
Reply-To: greenlaw@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Leila Thomas)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Annapolis, MD

In rec.arts.theatre, conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad) writes:
>
>4, 5.  I have heard of at least 2 local theaters (one in Maryland, I

There are two different (I think, I only saw one version).  One is at
the Oregon Ridge Dinner Theatre and the other is at Toby's Dinner theatre
(the one I saw).  They are both in MD, one near Baltimore and one in
Columbia.

Leila


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From: lundgren@vesta.unm.edu (Chad Lundgren)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: 'Science Fiction' Stage Plays
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:23:22 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Aug14.175234.1@fnalc.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalc.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>I write:

>> I can't believe nobody's mentioned the play from the man that originated the
>> word robot:  Rossum's Universal Robots (a.k.a R.U.R) by Carl Capek.  
>[...]
>> Anyway, it's an old play, but worth checking out.   
 
>It's pretty awful, if you ask me.  Hard to believe that this was
>entertainment in 1924.  Prague must have been a *really* dull town on
>a Saturday night.

Well, I only acted parts of it, as the deleted parts of the message would
have said, so I may have played one of the few interesting parts.  
From the parts I acted, I thought it was fairly entertaining.  
 
>Chicago's Moebius Theatre did a production of *R.U.R.* last year at
>Worldcon.  They put a lot of work into it, but the material just isn't
>that interesting, IMHO.

Well, the fact that it was acted at Worldcon gives it a certain legitimacy.
 
>You say you want classics? How about a musical adaptation of *Ralph
>124c 41+*?  Now THAT would be entertainment!

I've never heard of it.  At the very least, Mr. Capek is credited
in many circles as being the first to use the word robot, although
Asimov probably did more to popularize it.

>Also, nobody in this thread has mentioned the production of *The
>Forever War*, adapted by Joe Haldeman and (I think) Stuart Gordon,
>done by the Organic Theatre in Chicago.  It was pretty good-- the rump
>end, I understand, of a failed project to make a TV movie out of the
>book.

Now this I would definitely be interested in seeing, as I enjoyed the book.
 
-- 
Chad Lundgren:  lundgren@vesta.unm.edu OR lundgren@UNMB(.BITNET)

I feel this intense pressure to have a quote, but I won't give in to the
quote herds.  I will be quoteless in a quoted land, and be proud of it!
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From: aku@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Chia-Tso Ku)
Subject: Re: ANNA KARENINA...
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: rec
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:57:27 GMT

In article <MURRAY.92Aug21151559@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> murray@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Thomas Murray) writes:
>
>Who's the creative team (i.e. director, producers, musical director,
>lyrics, music, choreography, orchestrator, etc.)
>
>And who's in it?  I am only aware of Greg Edelman.

Book and Lyrics: Peter Kellogg
Music: Daniel Levine
Director: Theodore Mann
Choreographer: Patricia Birch
Sets: James Morgan
Costumes: Carrie Robinson
Lighting: Mary Jo Dondlinger
Musical Director: Nicholas Archer

Cast of 16 with:

Ann Crumb (Anna)
John Cunningham (Karenin)
Gregg Edelman (Levin)
Melissa Errico (Kitty)
Jerry Lanning (Stiva)
Scott Wentworth (Vronsky)

I believe the show is scheduled to open Aug. 26 (but that may have
been postponed) and run until Oct. 1 .  

Andrew
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From: murray@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Thomas Murray)
Subject: ANNA KARENINA...
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences, Evanston, IL
Distribution: rec
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:15:59 GMT


Anyone had a chance to see ANNA KARENINA in previews (I think at the
Circle In The Square)?

Who's the creative team (i.e. director, producers, musical director,
lyrics, music, choreography, orchestrator, etc.)

And who's in it?  I am only aware of Greg Edelman.

-tom
From: jbuck@moose.cs.indiana.edu (John F. Buck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: PHANTOM
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:08:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University

Can anyone supply info as to where Phantom is playing and the places it is
going to be playing.  I have yet to see it and am interested in going.
From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Opera -- Andrew Lloyd Weber or Ken Hill ???
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:44:30 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

There are at least 5 musical versions of The Phantom of the Opera
around.

1.  The ALW; enough said.

2.  The Ken Hill version, which has toured the country and been filmed.

3.  The musical with music/lyrics by Maury Yeston, book by Arthur Kopit
(the collaborators on "Nine").  This premiered a year ago in Houston
(Richard White, Gaston in "Beauty and the Beast", was the Phantom), and
productions are now running in Chicago and California.  All reports I've
heard agree that this show has an exceptionally attractive score.

4, 5.  I have heard of at least 2 local theaters (one in Maryland, I
forget where the other is) who have cooked up their own "Phantom"
musicals, with some original music, some public-domain opera music.

The original book is out of copyright now, so ANYBODY can write their
own adaptation without fear of reprisals, as long as you don't steal
someone else's music.  None of these versions have any music in common.

Jon Alan Conrad
From: bevans@carina.unm.edu (Mathemagician)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Opera -- Andrew Lloyd Weber or Ken Hill ???
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:23:30 GMT
Organization: Society for the Preservation of E. coli

The Albuquerque Civic Light Opera Association is going to be doing the
regional premiere of _The Phantom!,_ which is, I believe, the Hill
version of the novel, next season.

It is not based upon the Webber version in any way (if what they tell
me is true).

-- 
Brian Evans                |     "Bad mood, bad mood...Sure I'm in a bad mood!
bevans@carina.unm.edu      |      I haven't had sex...*EVER!*" -- Virgin Mary
From: dougm@hal.com (Doug Moran)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:54:35 GMT
Reply-To: dougm@hal.com (Doug Moran)
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.; Campbell, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gizmo.hal.com

Quick impressions of this year's Shakespeare Santa Cruz productions
(some spoilers, especially for A DOLL'S HOUSE):

MACBETH -- A superior production.  The venue of a redwood glen outdoors
is very effectively used.  Production is "authentic," i.e., ancient
Scotland; the stage and the witches cave look like rock, the characters
wear chainmail and wield broadswords, and so on.  Macbeth and his lady
are both well-played, but it was MacDuff who stood out for me in this
production.  His agony at hearing the murder of his wife and child was
clear, and indeed almost painful to watch.  The sword-play at the climax
was a little weak, but still good.  I recommend you see it at night,
when the lighting, the forest, and the fog become almost another lead
character in the drama.

TAMING OF THE SHREW -- An enjoyable romp, set in the early 20th Century
among mobsters.  The staging is intricate and, at times, spectactular,
with characters tossing things to each other blindly, falling about, and
rushing to and fro.  Indeed, I may go back to watch it again just to see
one fight scene that takes place at Our Heros home -- the choreography
is so complex that I missed a lot of what was going on.  Still and all,
nearly non-stop laughs and interesting staging (and framing of lines) do
not diguise the fact that this play is extremely sexist.  But more than
enjoyable for all of that.  Also presented in the glen; I recommend
seeing it during the day.

A DOLL'S HOUSE -- Ibsen's play is updated to the 50s in a very I LOVE
LUCY-type production.  This was my least favorite play -- Nora's
screechy, childish demeanor was irritating in and of itself, and her
husband was such a raging sexist jerk that you could almost see the men
in the audience squirming.  Nora's conversion to a "liberated woman" who
decides to leave her home and family -- literally overnight -- was not
very convincing to me; it was too sudden, and the groundwork had not
been laid very well.  Playing Nora as a jumpy scatterbrain in the first
two acts didn't help (and was *extremely* difficult to bear -- I hate
screechy, flighty characters).  The supporting cast was excellent,
though, and it was definitely an interesting production.  Still, not one
I would go see again (as opposed to MACBETH and SHREW).

Shakespeare Santa Cruz continues through this month (and I think early
September as well). Call the box office for further info at 408-459-4168.
-- 
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   dougm@hal.com      | Instead of running away or even inquiring about the
 {...}!hal.com!dougm  | secrets of the universe, *Californians* would probably
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From: pjm6z@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Dave Lister)
Subject: Moby Dick?
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:10:35 GMT


I recently took a trip to London with the express purpose of seeing as many
shows as I could.  While I was there I stopped into some record stores and
noticed a CD Single of a musical called Moby Dick, a new musical being
produced by Cameron Mackintosh.  The CD says that it is a selection from a
forthcoming cast album.  The theatre given on the CD is the Piccadilly 
Theatre.  Since the Moby Dick was not currently playing at the 
Piccadilly Theatre I was wondering if it had been out yet and flopped or if
it was to come.  One thing that makes me consider it being a flop is that
I saw posters for a new musical called _Which Witch_ to open at the
Piccadillyy Theatre in October.  If anyone could tell me what's up I'd
appreciate it.  The CD Single only has five songs and I'd like to hear
more.  You can either e-mail me or post a response.  Thanks.

Dave Lister
lister@virginia.edu

-- 
Dave Lister (lister@virginia.edu)

"They're all dead Dave"
From: murray@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Thomas Murray)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Phantom of the Opera -- Andrew Lloyd Weber or Ken Hill ???
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:53:32 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences, Evanston, IL

In article <=kdysjb@rpi.edu> garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes:

   In article <Bt52BM.8HB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lcpg8275@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sunshine ) writes:

>> There are at least 2 musical versions [of PHANTOM].

Do you mean two versions of the ALW PHANTOM?  Or two completely
different versions?  Either way, I can add another.  There is a
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA with music by Maury Yeston (NINE) playing in
Chicago at the Candelight Theatre.  It has been up for about half a
year, to fantastic reviews, and the run has just been extended to
January.  I know the Christine of that production, and she says there
is talk among the producers of moving the show to New York.  Can you
imagine two PHANTOMs playing on Broadway at the same time?  Does
anyone know if anything like this has ever happened before?  I guess
the duo versions of MOST HAPPY FELLA would count, huh?

>> PPS- What was the name of the guy who is doing a revamped ASPECTS OF LOVE?

The name of the director is Robin Phillips, whose name you always see
associated with the show (at least in the Chicago production).

-tom
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