Setting the musical Pippin inside a circus, as the recent Tony Award-winning revival does, seems perfectly natural to Gypsy Snider, the show’s co-choreographer and circus consultant. “Circus is dangerous, physically dangerous. That is a theme in ‘Pippin,’ the idea that you would risk your life every day on stage. That became very much a part of re-writing the show,” she says. … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘My Old Lady,’ ‘Book of Mormon,’ and ‘When You’re in Love…’
Write a play with a prominent role for actresses of an advanced age and watch it attract major award-laden performers. Certainly that is the case with My Old Lady, Israel Horovitz’s tribute to the French and their cultural differences with Americans. In the film version released earlier this year, two-time Oscar winner Maggie Smith took on the title role of wily nonagenarian … [Read more...]
The View from Home 23: New releases on DVD
The Father of My Children (IFC) Release date: March 29 Standard list price: $18.99 At just 28, French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love has shown an Orson Welles-like prodigiousness, already with a short and two features completed and one more in post-production. Given that she’s engaged to established French director Olivier Assayas, has acted in a number of art-house films and is … [Read more...]