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Article: God Stars in Obscene Life of Child-Genius and Triumphs.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2000
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Byline: John Heilpern
The most welcome 20th-anniversary production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus on Broadway belatedly told me something new about the celebrated play I'd seen twice before. I'm sure many others must have realized before me that the towering central role of the drama doesn't belong to its obscene child-genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nor to that righteous embodiment of mediocrity and self-consuming envy, court composer Antonio Salieri, who poisoned Mozart one way or another.
No, the star role in Amadeus, though unseen, is surely played by God-and what, or who, could be less fashionable? God in theater has been reduced to a walk-on role, a ...
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