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ArtsJournal: music
2020-10-14 12:34:06
Herbert Kretzmer, Who Wrote Lyrics For ‘Les MIZ’, Dead At 95
A career newspaperman, he started as a film journalist in his native South Africa and went on to be a theatre and TV critic for two London tabloids; he moonlighted as a song lyricist, writing the words for “Goodness Gracious Me,” “Yesterday When I Was Young,” and Charles Aznavour’s “She.” Then came the offer to […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-02-14 21:01:00
“Les MIZ” Song Has Become A Defiant Protest Anthem In China
Do You Hear the People Sing?, the defiant chorus from the musical Les Misérables, has become a song of protest in Hong Kong and, more recently, mainland China. Explicit references to Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor censured for his warnings about the coronavirus outbreak, and to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, are stamped upon – but […]
2019-06-25 05:48:00
Boublil & Schonberg’s Miss Saigon. June 22, 2019.
Citizens Bank Opera House, Boston, MA. Mezzanine (Seat MEZZRC J-120, $75). Story. American soldier Chris visits a bar in Saigon and falls in love with the bargirl Kim. They get married in a Vietnamese ceremony. During the last days before the Fall of Saigon, Chris and Kim try without success to look for one another. Chris is forced to leave Saigon in a helicopter; Kim, after murdering a communist commissar who wanted to kill her young son, flees Saigon with the bar owner The Engineer to Bangkok. Chris is helped in his resettlement in the United States by Ellen, and marries her. Meanwhile, Chris’s fellow soldier John now works for an organization helping to locate children in Vietnam born of American fathers, and locates Kim and her son. Chris and Ellen go with John to Bangkok, their intention is to provide Kim with money so she can raise […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-08-30 18:14:05
Pittsfield Butterfly Warrants Attention
The recently restored 1903 Colonial Theater now possess fine stage facilities and lobbies as well as a jewel box house. Having already urged all and sundry within striking distance of Pittsfield not to miss the remaining performances of Madama Butterfly on August 30th and September 2nd, we now offer more reasons why. Point one: this is a damned good production in a beautifully restored 750-seat theater, contemporaneous with the premier of the work presented. Seeing Puccini in this setting treats us to the smaller scale and intimacy of player-interaction characteristic of early performances. Point two: This is a very superior cast of national status and the two leads are truly “singing actors,” artists that can both look and sing their parts. Finally, hoping to intrigue a public less acquainted, or even completely unfamiliar with opera, we pointed it out that with surtitles, this kind of opera is no more […]
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