Michael Langham, whose long and influential directing career saw him helm productions on Broadway, run the Stratford Shakespeare Festival for a decade, and man the Guthrie Theatre during the 1970s, died Jan. 15 at his home near Cranbrook, Kent, in England. He has contracted a chest infection before Christmas and failed to recover. He was 91.
Even the most seasoned end-of-season Broadway first-nighter is apt to get the bends going from Hot Feet to “Cold Feets,” as we just did this week. The former is the Earth, Wind & Fire songbook musical which opened April 30; the latter is a tap number that a jittery bridegroom does on the eve of his wedding to shake the nerves away in The Drowsy Chaperone, an original musical — that rarest of Broadway birds — which opened May 1.
Even the most seasoned end-of-season Broadway first-nighter is apt to get the bends going from Hot Feet to “Cold Feets,” as we just did this week. The former is the Earth, Wind & Fire songbook musical which opened April 30; the latter is a tap number that a jittery bridegroom does on the eve of his wedding to shake the nerves away in The Drowsy Chaperone, an original musical — that rarest of Broadway birds — which opened May 1.
