Broadway has a reputation for clannishness, but a look at the last several years of Tony Award nominations paints a slightly different picture, at least as far as musicals are concerned. This year’s nominations, which will be announced tomorrow morning at 8:30, could take tyro-mania to a new level.
Jerome Robbins was the son of Russian immigrants, and on Friday night, New York City Ballet grouped several of his works to Russian music in a program entitled “Russian Roots.” But the works collected here do not show his roots’ most fruitful aesthetic abundance.
Like the legendary Japanese lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, who continued fighting World War II from the jungles of Lubang 27 years after his emperor had surrendered, Ron Paul battles on. There is nothing much new about the ideas he articulates in “The Revolution” for those who have followed his 30-odd years as an elected representative or the 20-odd books he has authored.
Alan and Marilyn Bergman, whose lyrics are being celebrated in a two-week run at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, have dominated the intelligent pop music of the last 40 years and provided a lifeline to the great traditional pop and jazz singers in the latter parts of their careers.
One thing is for sure: Roy Lichtenstein was not afraid of red, yellow, and blue.
The primary colors burst shamelessly from his canvases upon the skylighted white cube that is the Gagosian Gallery’s uptown powerhouse premises. The show gathers 16 paintings and related sculptural works and multiples from the Pop artist’s classic early-1960s period of romance cartoon figuration, his “Girls.”
As “Iron Man” steamrolled toward $200 million in ticket sales this past weekend, and as all eyes turn to this weekend’s family-oriented blockbuster, “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” and then to next week’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” it’s easy to forget that the industry’s focus has so thoroughly shifted away from the Friday theatrical opening and toward the Tuesday DVD release.
The popularity of contemporary art and design has been bad news for antiques dealers. While many dealers have responded by moving into 20th-century design, one firm, Mallett, is going a step further by actually commissioning new pieces. Under the name Meta, Mallett has come out with an inaugural collection of 11 pieces, by five major designers.
Production of ABC’s “Ugly Betty” is moving to New York. The announcement came Monday from Governor Paterson, Mayor Bloomberg, and ABC Studios president Mark Pedowitz.
