Мюзикл как американский феномен: что общего у Стивена Сондхайма и Анджелы Лэнсбери?

Join us for a lecture on Wednesday, May 25 at 7:00p.m. You will make a fascinating trip around the world of American musicals. Musical is part and parcel of popular culture in America today. At the third lecture of the course, you will continue the acquaintance with the history of this phenomenon.

Actors are often slaves to authors, or at any rate authors are often dictatorial toward actors, but Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim have had a rare theatrical relationship, in a way helping each other create, or reimagine, some of the landmark musicals of the past 45 years: the 1964 cult flop ‘Anyone Can Whistle’; the great revival of ‘Gypsy’ in the seventies; ‘Sweeney Todd’ in 1979; and the revival of ‘A Little Night Music’.

This time you will see the results of the creative union of these two talented people. You will learn a lot of interesting facts about Sonheim’s musicals, that have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. Special attention will be paid to those in which Angela Lansbury has starred. You will watch highlights from the best of them.