Divamensch

The 1994 Best Musical went to Passion. One of the other nominees was Beauty and the Beast. Classic diva/mensch duo: Diva: Beauty and the Beast - - colorful, good clean family fun, show-stopping numbers, happy ending Mensch: Passion - - deeply felt, intellectual, gentle yet devastating, sad ending

I saw Rope at The New Group on Oct 23, 2026. I'm a big fan of the 1948 Hitchcock film based on the play and was very excited to see the play on which it was based. I dug into the production a little after buying my ticket and saw that it was a new adaptation by Gordon Greenberg of the 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton. I had a feeling we were in trouble and I was right. The play is a loose fictionalized version of the Leopold and Loeb case in 1924. They were two students at the U