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FROM AROUND THE WORLD: MILWAUKEE.(Review)
Floyd Collins is a startlingly powerful work, based on a true story and masterfully shaped into an engrossing musical by composer-librettist Adam Guettel. Under the superb stage direction of Paul Barnes, Skylight Opera Theatre has made it a profound theatrical experience, the opening offering of their highly eclectic season.
In 1925, cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped underground while searching for a cavern he could develop into a profitable tourist attraction. The story of Collins's plight dominated the national news for weeks, while the cave site became the first media circus. The story reveals the best and worst of human nature, as the Collins family tries to cope with the impending tragedy, and outsiders come to help and gawk.
Guettel's music is highly rhythmic and original, yet it clearly draws on folk, bluegrass and Broadway styles (think Sondheim). The score ranges from a reverberant cave echo, used in a very haunting and evocative way, to a tongue-tangling patter song for three song-and-dance men (brash newspaper reporters) and a gentle, touching solo scene for Floyd's sister.
Skylight's casting was inspired: everyone on the stage was passionate and effective. Tony Clements, as Floyd Collins, was onstage throughout as a strong, winning, central presence around whom the story ...
- 'FLOYD COLLINS' DOESN'T MOVE - LITERALLY.(77 SQUARE)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) Christians, Lindsay September 14, 2009 700+ words
...com The concept for the musical "Floyd Collins" is a fascinating one: a Kentucky...Theatre of Madison's production of "Floyd Collins," running through Sept. 20 at the...set, the biggest take-away from "Floyd Collins" is that it might be more entertaining...
- Musical Theater Tells the Story of Floyd Collins
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered April 21, 1994 700+ words
...as improbable subjects for operas. Floyd Collins was a Kentucky explorer who got trapped...the Collins legend. Now, there is Floyd Collins, a new musical which is premiering...ELIZABETH PARIS LUNA, Reporter: Floyd Collins is based on the true story of a farmer...
- Fire down below. (musical 'Floyd Collins')
- Magazine article from: American Theatre Shteir, Rachel April 1, 1994 700+ words
...director Tina Landau did. The result is Floyd Collins, based on the real-life 1925 tragedy...him 50 feet below ground. Landau's Floyd Collins uses Collins's ghoulish story to...start his own sputtering career, Floyd Collins begins with a psychological question...
- Notes from the Underground; Adam Guettel's musical 'Floyd Collins' explores...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Schaefer, Stephen January 30, 2001 700+ words
...unlikely subject: the tragedy of cave explorer Floyd Collins. Guettel's "Floyd Collins" - which opens Thursday in a SpeakEasy Stage...he said. "And just because they say Floyd Collins was a clear example of media frenzy in this...
- Unremarkable; Poorly drawn characters keep 'Floyd Collins' in the dark.(Arts...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Byrne, Terry February 6, 2001 700+ words
"Floyd Collins," presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company...design that works wonders. So why is "Floyd Collins" so disappointing? SpeakEasy Stage...s 4-year-old musical, but "Floyd Collins" suffers from its dramatic limitations...
- Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity.(book by Floyd Collins)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Buxton, Rachel January 1, 2005 700+ words
Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity. By Floyd Collins. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 246 pp. 38 [pounds sterling...
- Creating collective attention in the public domain: human interest narratives...
- Magazine article from: Social Forces Fine, Gary Alan White, Ryan D. September 1, 2002 700+ words
...the basis for popular media narratives. In this analysis we focus on the first widely publicized entrapment, the case of Floyd Collins, the Kentucky man trapped in a cave for seventeen days in the winter of 1925. The media attention directed to the nine...
- American Media Inc. plans a March launch of Soap Opera News.
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 8, 1997 700+ words
...that it plans a March launch of Soap Opera News, a new weekly digest-sized publication...television's soap opera programming. Soap Opera News will have a six-week introductory cover...will coordinate the distribution of Soap Opera News to supermarkets, mass-merchandisers...
