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Article: Jerry Springer makes musical sense; The National Theatre is breaking out of its musical formula with a bold new show.(Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 10, 2002
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Byline: DAVID BENEDICT
EVER since Richard Eyre fulfilled Laurence Olivier's dream by staging Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre in 1982, the venue has been bolstering its finances with splashy revivals of musicals.
Vast casts, orchestras and design demands mean that they're terrifyingly expensive to produce, but success spells boxoffice. Audiences in the past two years booked on the basis of the titles alone for South Pacific and My Fair Lady. But the gulf between remounting a well-loved classic and staging something new is a mile wide. Which is why incoming artistic director Nicholas Hytner's announcement that his reign will kick off in April with ...