Still, could a couple of guys from the world of cartoons become the new Comden and Green? Don’t rule out the possibility. Stone have enlisted the collaboration of the composer Robert Lopez (“Avenue Q”) and the director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw (“The Drowsy Chaperone,” “Spamalot”), Broadway veterans who know that, in musicals, parody and sincerity are by no means mutually exclusive.
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Stone, lest we forget, have shown an unexpected affinity for old-style Broadway razzmatazz, not only in the song-studded “South Park” series, but also in three feature-length films: the early, cheerfully gory “Cannibal! The Musical” (1993) and the better-known “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” (1999), whence came the Oscar-nominated song “Blame Canada,” and “Team America: World Police” (2004), which featured an acute send-up of “Rent.” (There are those - and they are not insane - who regard “Bigger, Longer and Uncut” as the great movie musical of the late 20th century.)įor “The Book of Mormon,” Mr. But it is also likely to have a high quotient of traditional (well, make that warped-traditional) American musical-comedy pizzazz and enthusiasm. Since this “Book of Mormon” is the brainchild of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the brilliant and routinely obscene “South Park” cartoon series, it is likely to feature words you would not hear in a Salt Lake City Sunday school. That’s “The Book of Mormon” (opening March 24 at the Eugene O’Neill Theater), a singing, dancing history of the founding of the Mormon Church that also tells the parallel story of two contemporary disciples who go to spread Joseph Smith’s gospel in Uganda. The crashing, crushing and smashing sounds that regularly emanate from “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” - the accident-prone $65 million musical now (and perhaps forever) in previews - have all but drowned out the advance word on a show that, in a Spidey-free season, would surely have some of the loudest buzz on Broadway. Which of these will be topping our lists and yours a year from now? We’ll just have to wait and see. The exciting New York City Ballet dancer Sara Mearns should take on new roles, and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will take its final bows. 2, with the director Peter Sellars making his Met debut. The Metropolitan Opera production of John Adams’s “Nixon in China” arrives on Feb.
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The creative minds behind the satiric animated series “South Park” take on Broadway with “The Book of Mormon,” a musical history of the founding of the Mormon Church, opening on March 24, while the actor Brian Bedford brings Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest” to the Roundabout Theater Company on Jan. Now is the time to look forward: what performances in 2011 will inspire, shock, cheer us, maybe even change our world?Ĭritics, reporters and editors of The New York Times have scanned the cultural horizon of the months ahead, and several offerings have caught their eyes. But whatever moments onstage still linger in our memory, Jay Gatsby himself would advise against dwelling too long on the year that was. IT wasn’t easy for critics to choose the best cultural offerings of 2010.
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