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Posted: 11/5/10 at 3:45pm
Happy news for SMILE fans like myself.
A revised version of the short-lived 1986 Marvin Hamlisch-Howard Ashman musical Smile, set behind the scenes of an American beauty pageant, will receive a New York reading later this month.
Richard Biever will helm the private Nov. 19 industry reading that will reflect revisions made to the musical by Hamlisch and Ashman following its Broadway run. Isaac Harlan will serve as musical director.
Biever told Playbill.com that the reading will reflect the licensable version that is available from Samuel French. After the Broadway production shuttered, the creators drew on their earlier instincts for the piece, and Biever tells Playbill.com that the licensable production "is essentially the script and score of the workshop, pre-Broadway," which casts a darker tone on the material.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/144664-Casting-Announced-for-Reading-of-Revised-Version-of-Broadway-Pageant-Musical-Smile
A revised version of the short-lived 1986 Marvin Hamlisch-Howard Ashman musical Smile, set behind the scenes of an American beauty pageant, will receive a New York reading later this month.
Richard Biever will helm the private Nov. 19 industry reading that will reflect revisions made to the musical by Hamlisch and Ashman following its Broadway run. Isaac Harlan will serve as musical director.
Biever told Playbill.com that the reading will reflect the licensable version that is available from Samuel French. After the Broadway production shuttered, the creators drew on their earlier instincts for the piece, and Biever tells Playbill.com that the licensable production "is essentially the script and score of the workshop, pre-Broadway," which casts a darker tone on the material.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/144664-Casting-Announced-for-Reading-of-Revised-Version-of-Broadway-Pageant-Musical-Smile
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