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Troy Segal

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A Ripping Good Time

L ONDON, 1893. Giggling, sashaying, more than a little drunk, a prostitute makes arrangements with a gentleman off-screen. At his


The Best of all Possible Locations... ...Pinball's Better in a Fishbowl

In staging his 1974 musical version of Candide, director Hal Prince completely tore apart and re-arranged a New York theater


King Arthur in the Union

Today regarded as an American musical classic, Lerner and Lowe's Camelot met with a less-than-enthusiastic reception from critics when it


Not So Simple Simon

A BOUT FIVE MINUTES into Chapter Two the hero breaks into tears. There's nothing extraordinary about such behavior--except that Chapter


'Listening In' on 'Children;' Week II for Chapter II

Director Scott Goldsmith describes Out of the Reach of Children as an evening of "musical impressions" rather than a musical.


A Man of Wit and Wisdom

He walks in with a wisecrack. Neither the intellectual pomp inherent in the lecture format, nor the stolid, somber Eliot


Simon at the Shubert and Spies at the Pudding

Approximately five minutes after Chapter II begins, the hero breaks into tears. Nothing extraordinary about such behavior--except that Chapter II


Up in Arms and Out to Lunch

'Tis the season to be studious. The papers you have to write and the texts you haven't read are enough


Pretty Maids All in a Row

Debutante, n. [from the French debut, or beginning]: a young woman making her formal entrance into society. The phenomenon of