There are comebacks and comebacks: the rather sad, end-of-the-pier affair, because money’s run out and there’s alimony to pay; the small cameo ‘because I miss the applause’; and Alessandra Ferri.
Ferri’s various comeback projects are classy with a piece being created for her by Martha Clarke based on Colette’s novel Cherì with ABT’s Herman Cornejo, a new ballet about Eleonora Duse by John Neumeier at La Scala, and The Piano Upstairs, the first venture, which opens at the Spoleto Festival on 28 June.
For Spoleto she’s assembled an impressive creative team. The story was her own idea, but John Weidman gave it structure, and dialogue. He is a musical theatre veteran having written books for Stephen Sondheim (Pacific Overtures, Assassins, Road Show), Susan Stroman (Contact, Happiness) and Richard Maltby Jr.… [continue reading]
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