Monthly archive June, 1997

Theatre Preview: Alan Menken And “beauty And The Beast”

Theatre Preview:  Alan Menken And “beauty And The 

Beast”

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine June 1997 Alan Menken has written songs for the best of them:   from the Hunchback to Hercules, Aladdin to King David. The mega-award-winning composer has crafted melodies for money-grubbing men (Scrooge in the annual “Christmas Carol” at Madison Square Garden), man-eating plants (Audrey in “Little Shop of Horrors”), and singing teapots (Mrs. Potts in “Beauty and the Beast”). Read More →

Theatre Preview: Mark Harelik And “the Legacy”

Theatre Preview: Mark Harelik And “the Legacy”

JUNE 1997 Published in the Globe Magazine His grandparents were happy to leave Czarist Russia and settle in the U.S.   Their unexpected destination was Hamilton, a rural, central Texas, Southern Baptist town of 3,000 -- none of them Jews. What kind of legacy did they leave for their children and grandchildren? This question haunted veteran actor Read More →