Adolph Green

NEW YORK (AP) _ Some Broadway melodies never get old. Consider the music Leonard Bernstein composed for "On the Town." It's among the musical theater's most youthful and exuberant. So it's hard to believe the show reaches 65, senior citizen status,...

The plan was to marry Leonard Bernstein. Other girls in my neighborhood had their crushes on Elvis and James Dean or, forgive them, Mouseketeers. But I was captivated by the dashing fellow on TV, the one who talked with such exuberance and a thrilling...

WHEN I was a young writer and wore a pencil behind my ear without a hint of irony, I swore a great many things. One was that I would never adapt anything. My ideas would spring anew from my dramatic imagination and the world would rejoice -- though...

Events schedules frequently change. It's best to call the venue before you go. Annie Russell Theatre The theater is on the campus of Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park. Season tickets are $50 and $60 for general audiences, $47 and $57 for...

It seems as if everything there is to know about choreographer Jerome Robbins is in this hefty biography, Somewhere. Author Amanda Vaill had access to Robbins' journals and diaries, as well as to his notes about his projects for Broadway and, later,...

Everyone is a music elitist to some degree, but even the snobbiest audiophile has a weak spot, says the man who has turned one of the past decade's bestsellers into Broadway's latest songfest. "Say you're on a road trip with four friends and a song comes...

If an enterprising composer were to pen a ballad about the coming theater season, he could call it "Memory," because so much of what's stagebound has an air of familiarity. Again, a gorgeous movie star is making her Broadway debut, though it's Julianne...

We sure don't like our wrinkles! After the on anti-aging goos, readers want to join the conversation. Thanks for your suggestions on other things to try (or reject). In the interest of all of us who want to remain young, here you go: Anna Gunter Kaplan,...

Betty Comden, who with her partner Adolph Green wrote some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century, including "New York, New York," "Just in Time" and the heart-wrenching "Never-Never-Land" from "Peter Pan," has died. She was believed to be 89....

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...

Say this for Brooke Shields in "Wonderful Town," she has guts. But let's not be stingy. Shields, who dares to replace the dazzling Donna Murphy in one of the most demanding musical- comedy star turns on Broadway, also happens to have grown into a major...

Talk about great comic timing. Just when it seemed that all the commercial musicals in this busy beast of a season were going to be, at best, mixed blessings, along comes "Wonderful Town" - a big wet kiss for old-time Broadway, dream-boat Manhattan and...