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Mar 16, 2015 · 59. A revival of this 1978 musical, directed by Scott Ellis, about dueling megalomaniacs on a train journey, opened at the American Airlines Theater on Sunday night. Sara Krulwich/The New York...
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Mar 16, 2015 · Mar 15, 2015 7:00pm PT. Broadway Review: ‘On the 20th Century’ with Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Gallagher. By Marilyn Stasio. Scott Ellis’s dazzling production of “On the Twentieth...
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On the Twentieth Century is a musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman. Based partly on the 1932 play Twentieth Century and its 1934 film adaptation, the musical is part operetta, part farce and part screwball comedy. The story involves the behind-the-scenes relationship between Lily, a temperamental ...
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green
- Cy Coleman
- 1981
May 23, 2016 · SCREWBALL MUSICAL HEAVEN. When it opened on Broadway in 1978, On the Twentieth Century achieved the impossible. Cy Coleman’s clever score—a beautiful pastiche of turn-of-the-century operetta and silent film scores with some added jazz and musical comedy bounce—collided on the tracks with Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s delectably chewy ...
Mar 15, 2015 · “On the Twentieth Century” isn’t a great musical, but it does offer great opportunities for actors to prove why they’re stars – or not stars.
SYNOPSIS: A down-and-out Broadway producer struggles to convince his former muse and lover, now a successful film actress, to return to Broadway in a play about Mary Magdelene, while dealing with...
