Burt and Hal Broadway Revue

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From Yahoo News:

Yahoo News said:
The Atkinson Has 'The Look of Love' for Roundabout; Cast Announced
Thu Dec 5, 2:11 PM ET

Robert Simonson, Playbill On-Line

The Roundabout Theatre Company has cast The Look of Love at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The new revue of the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David will land there April 1. May 4 will be the official opening. June 15 is the final performance.

The cast features Liz Callaway - as previously reported by Playbill On-Line-as well as Kevin Ceballo, Jonathan Dokuchitz, Eugene Fleming, Capathia Jenkins, Jeanine La Manna, Shannon Lewis, Rachelle Rak and Desmond Richardson.

The Look of Love will feature the choreography of Ann Reinking and staging by Scott Ellis. It is conceived by David Thompson, Ellis, David Loud and Reinking. Loud will do the music direction and vocal arrangements.

The team of Bacharach and David flourished in the late '60s and early '70s. Something of a throwback to the Tin Pan Alley tradition, the team, with its smooth, syncopated pop style, was anomalous in an age when heavy metal, British pop and psychedelic rock prevailed on the radio. The revue includes more than 30 Bacharach-David landmark songs such as "The Look of Love," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," "Anyone Who Had a Heart," "What's New, Pussycat," "Alfie," "What the World Needs Now," "Close to You," "Wishin' and Hopin'," "Walk on By," "One Less Bell to Answer," "Do You Know the Way To San Jose" and "Promises, Promises." Many of these were first recorded by the team's chief interpreter, Dionne Warwick. Other acts to record their music include Gene Pitney, Tom Jones, The Fifth Dimension, B.J. Thomas and Dusty Springfield.

The show was once called What The World Needs Now. The Roundabout had planned to stage the show several seasons back, after it premiered as a book musical at the Old Globe Theatre in the summer of 1998. However, the nonprofit decided to postpone the project (eventually leaving the door open for Warren Leight's Side Man, which went on to win the Tony Award for Best Play). Gillian Lynne directed and choreographed that version of the show, which had a book by Kenny Solms, based on an idea by Solms and Lynne.

The design team includes Derek McLane (Set Design), Martin Pakledinaz (Costume Design), Howell Binkley (Lighting Design), Brian Ronan (Sound Design) and Don Sebesky (Orchestrations). Tickets go on sale in January 2003 and will be available by calling Ticketmaster at (212)307-7171. Ticket prices range from $25 to $85.

Perhaps a copycat effort following the astounding success of the "Abba" musical, Mamma Mia!?

Harry
...noting the familiar name of Don Sebesky in all of this, online...
 
Liz Callaway has done lots of Broadway(Cats,Miss Saigon)and is an in-demand cabaret singer(along with her sister,Ann Hampton Callaway). Ann Reinking is considered one of the top Broadway dancers,ever. A Bob Fosse protege(and married to him)she appeared in the Fosse film,"All That Jazz". Ann choreographed and starred in the 1996 revivial of "Chicago",the Kanter-Ebb musical that hits movie screens this week. Oddly enough,Ann played Roxie Hart,originally performed by Bob Fosse's ex-wife,Gwen Verdon. In 1999,Ann co-created, co-directed and co- choreographed "Fosse",a revue based on Bob's work whcih won the 1999 Tony for Best Musical.The timing the the new revue is right at Tony nomination time and I suspect this is going to have a longer life than just a few weeks. Mac
 
Reinking and Fosse, though a long-term couple, were never married. Fosse and Verdon remained very tight until Bob died.
 
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