Tag: van Hove, Ivo

Rebecca Frecknall Is Bringing ‘Cabaret’ Back to Broadway

When Rebecca Frecknall was a child, one of her favorite things to watch was a televised 1993 London revival of “Cabaret,” which her father had recorded on VHS tape. As the British theater director grew up, she hoped that one day she would stage a version of the musical, in which a writer falls in […]

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Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical is Opening. How Complete Was It?

The book, on the other hand, has been revised since Sondheim’s death by its writer, David Ives, and director, Joe Mantello. But the team said that “the three collaborators agreed after the informal reading that took place on Sept. 8, 2021, that Steve’s songwriting for both acts was complete.” There is a long history of […]

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How Directors Are Reimagining Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Shows

The closing of “The Phantom of the Opera” last spring left a chandelier-sized hole in New York. And as of this summer, for the first time in 44 years, there is no Andrew Lloyd Webber musical running on Broadway. But now comes an unexpected new chapter in the career of one of musical theater’s most […]

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