Light fantastic : adventures in theatre /
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| Author / Creator: | Lahr, John, 1941- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Dial Press, 1996. |
| Description: | xiii, 381 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Tom Stoppard. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy forms part of the Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Tom Stoppard |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12756551 |
Table of Contents:
- Comedians : Bill Hicks : the goat boy rises ; Joe Orton : a revenger's tragedy ; Max Wall : the monkey king of comedy ; Barry Humphries : playing possum ; Jackie Mason and Mort Sahl : working the room ; Peter Cook : bedazzled
- Playwrights : Oscar Wilde : running Wilde ; Harold Pinter : night sweats ; Mikhail Bulgakov : the lone wolf and the Russian bear ; Tennessee Williams : fugitive mind ; Tony Kushner : beyond Nelly ; Edward Albee : sons and mothers ; Sir Terence Rattigan : untutored hearts ; Lillian Hellman : hell on a short fuse ; Alan Bennett : madjesty ; Arthur Miller : dead souls ; Eugene O'Neill : selling the sizzle ; Arnold Wesker : hand to mouth ; Clifford Odets : waiting for Odets ; Neil Simon : shtick ball ; Brian Friel : sight unseen ; Tom Stoppard : blowing hot and cold
- Musicals : George and Ira Gershwin : city slickers ; Rodgers and Hammerstein : Carousel ; Jule Styne : Mr. Broadway ; George C. Wolfe : Jelly's last jam ; Savion Glover : tap messenger ; Lerner and Loewe : Shaw business ; Beauty and the beast : the shock of the neutral ; Stephen Sondheim : love in gloom ; The Who's Tommy : full tilt ; Isaac Bashevis Singer : bring back the clowns ; Kern and Hammerstein : Mississippi mud
- Productions : Ingmar Bergman : gravity and grace ; Ariane Mnouchkine : caprice of the gods ; Ralph Fiennes : matineĢe idolatry ; Ingmar Bergman : the battle of the vanities ; Stephen Daldry : the virgin and the dynamo ; Peter Brook : losing the plot ; Anna Deavere Smith : under the skin ; Ingmar Bergman : winter songs.
