He has a career spanning five decades, and his plays are routinely performed all over the world. His work centers on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. For McNally, the most important function of theatre is to create community by bridging rifts opened between people by difference in religion, race, gender, and particularly sexual orientation.
"Chita Rivera is our strongest link to the Golden Age of the American Musical. She worked with all the great choreographers and composers and was present at the creation of such seminal masterpieces as The Dance at the Gym from West Side Story when the talent in the room was a veritable Mount Rushmore of the American theatre: Bernstein, Sondheim, Robbins, Laurents and Prince. I hope our show reminds audiences of what that level of theatre was like and what it still can be if the talent, the technique and the passion are there. Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life looks back in order to look forward."
"Chita Rivera is our strongest link to the Golden Age of the American Musical. She worked with all the great choreographers and composers and was present at the creation of such seminal masterpieces as The Dance at the Gym from West Side Story when the talent in the room was a veritable Mount Rushmore of the American theatre: Bernstein, Sondheim, Robbins, Laurents and Prince. I hope our show reminds audiences of what that level of theatre was like and what it still can be if the talent, the technique and the passion are there. Chita Rivera: The Dancers Life looks back in order to look forward."
"[McNally's inspiration for the play came from the Manhattan Theatre Club who asked the playwright for a new work to mark the re-opening of the Biltmore Theatre, which had been derelict for 16 years.] It was so terrible a place, ... that people shuddered as they passed it. It's a miracle that it was left standing."
"Chita Rivera is our strongest link to the Golden Age of the American musical, ... She worked with all the great choreographers and composers and was present for the creation of such seminal masterpieces."
"Crucifixion"
"Monty."
"I said if they wanted to keep the British setting in Northern England, then I will bow out, because that's not my lingo."
"It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either."
"The New York theater community is a place I know my way around in with some certainty,"
"My first play was written when I was 23, and I'm 66 now, so that's 43 years of doing this where I sort of know where everything is. It doesn't mean I do everything right, but I know where everything is. Here, I'm very much a visitor. New York is my turf and I'm used to working with my actors."
5 ... But the creative team of playwright Terrence McNally and composer-lyricists Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, all of whom worked together on “Ragtime,” made it happen, using Disney’s animated “Anastasia” as source material ... 5 ... IF YOU GO. WHAT ... 5.
McNally’s, a popular Irish tavern on Chicago’s SouthwestSide, announced Wednesday it will close after 35 years. On its marquee sign, McNally’s, 11136 S ... “McNally’s has been in our family for 35 years.
Lopez, who has previously been at Sundance with thriller Lila and Eve, will be present with a new version of Kiss of the Spider-Woman, based on the 1992 stage musical written by the late Terrence McNally ...View image in fullscreen ... Photograph ... Share ... .
Joan Marcus... 10)—the presidential election on Tuesday ... In opposition ... Doctorow’s 1975 novel about American social change between 1902 and 1912 features music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally ... ....
With its enfolding quilt of a score by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens of the kind that could be inscribed on a plaque, and book by Terrence McNally, all based on E.L ... So much of McNally’s ...
Playwright Terrence McNally took Callas’s Juilliard stint a step further by creating his Master Class, a play dramatizing a composite of them ...Faye Dunaway had long planned to make a movie of McNally’s Master Class, but that project failed to happen ... .
Nathan's big break in theater was playing the part of Mendy in Terrence McNally's play The Lisbon Traviata, who was an obsessed opera fan, who's not exactly the same character as Philip, but it was someone who really knew their opera ... .
PerhapsEM Forster himself could even be a character wandering through it ... Any doubts he harboured about his talent had been partly assuaged by Terrence McNally (playwright of Love! Valour! Compassion!), who read one of his early plays and declared.
Sun Sentinel
24 Dec 2024
Sun Sentinel
24 Dec 2024