Theater 12 Feb 2006 08:00 am
Brundibar
– Today NYC is in the process of being hit with a blizzard/snow storm. There’s a walkway into my studio that I have to shovel whenever it snows.
John Dilworth decided that I’d probably kill myself shoveling it too quickly, so he drew me on a napkin, and I thought I’d share it with you. (By the way, the last thing I drew – according to his picture – is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (in the snow). Don’t ask.
Obviously, I’m still alive!
Though it’s still snowing, and I do have more shoveling ahead of me.
– A children’s opera about the holocaust!
Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner have written an operatic version of their children’s book, Brundibar. Sendak has long been devoted to opera and has had several successful collaborations in the past. Brundibar has been in development for a number of years and has performed in a number of cities. This NY Times review is of the most recent production done in New Haven at Yale.
- And on Broadway, Disney’s Tarzan swings perilously close to opening. It’ll star ex-American Idol finalist, Josh Strickland. The NY Post’s gossipy Broadway columnist, Michael Riedel, gave us his interesting comments on the show. If it can transfer in any way similarly to The Lion King, the show will be an enormous hit. The latter show had Julie Taymor leading the way to the theatrical version; Tarzan has British designer-turned-director, Bob Crowley, transferring the jungles to the stage. His sets are usually quite daring in their dynamic use of perspective and proportion. How this will affect his direction is something else again. This is what Tom Schumacher has been doing since leaving Disney Feature Animation.
