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Mr. Menzel's "Capricious Summer" (1968) fuses comedy and social commentary in a toothsome admixture set in the Bohemian countryside.
WSJ: Pearls of the Czech New Wave | Before the Spring Was Gone | By David Mermelstein
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Mr. Menzel's "Mr. Baltazar's Death" proves engagingly droll.
WSJ: Pearls of the Czech New Wave | Before the Spring Was Gone | By David Mermelstein
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With a score by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman, "Wicked" has been one of Broadway's biggest success stories since it arrived in 2003 starring Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda and Idina Menzel as Elphaba.
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The Wicked Witch, Elphaba (originally played by the excellent Idina Menzel), turns out to be good, while Glinda the Good Witch (originally played by Kristen Chenoweth) is exposed as a smug, ambitious, manipulative bitch, with little talent for sorcery.
NEWYORKER: Wicked
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Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).
WSJ: Pearls of the Czech New Wave | Before the Spring Was Gone | By David Mermelstein
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Menzel said he immediately queried "ninja" on the Google search engine and found not only scores of short, written descriptions of what a ninja is and does, but also a book on the subject that could be read online and a video of guys acting like ninjas.
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