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the tune into a musical film for televi-
sion,
and that went ahead with
Special to the Jewish News
Manilow as the star.
With an Emmy for that production,
opacabana stops in
the
team adapted the film for a musi-
Detroit as a Latin
cal
revue
at Caesar's Resorts in Atlantic
themed musical, but it's
City and later expanded it into a two-
also a love letter,
act musical for British stages.
according to playwright and lyri-
"When [executive producer] Van
cist Bruce Sussman, who collabo-
Kaplan
approached us [to bring the
rated with Barry Manilow and
show
to
the U.S.], we said we'd really
Jack Feldman for the passionate
like
to
restructure
it and install the
tale told through high-powered
concept
that
we
always
wanted," says
song and dance.
Sussman,
51,
who
has
worked
with
"It's a love letter for the
Manilow and Feldman, together and
Technicolor movie musicals of the
separately, for 28 years.
1940s," explains Sussman, who
"The British creative team didn't
expects to catch up with the tour-
really know the Technicolor movies
ing show for one of its eight per-
the way we did — and we found out
formances, Oct. 3-8, at Music
the British public didn't really know
Hall Center for the Performing
them
— so they did a physical pro-
Arts.
duction
quite different from what we
"The plot is framed by a con-
had imagined."
temporary songwriter who is
In putting the musical together, the
imagining another time, and as
writers — Manilow, Sussman and
such, he sees that time — the
Feldman collaborated on the book —
world of the Technicolor movies
worked
in one room for a while to
of the 1940s — through a con-
map
it
out.
With Manilow composing
temporary view. The music is a
music
and
living
on the West Coast,
marriage of the '40s styles and the more con-
Franc D'Ambrosio
and
Sussman
and
Feldman
working
on lyrics and
temporary styles. It's a very hip score."
(Tony) and Darcie
music in New York, the three relied on faxes and
The score got a head start on the play, which
Roberts (Lola) star
phones as the show developed.
in "Copacabana."
is about a showgirl launched on the path to
Starring in the touring version are Franc
stardom at the legendary Copacabana night-
D'Ambrosio (Tony), who holds the record as the
club. She gets the help of a New York bartender
world's longest performing Phantom in Phantom of the
and then is whisked away to a club in Havana by another
Opera; Darcie Roberts (Lola), who starred on Broadway in
man.
and Gavin MacLeod (Sam), who was Captain
Dream;
"Copacabana," the title song, was written in 1978 for
Stubing
in the TV series The Love Boat and Murray
album
and
then
was
released
as
a
sin-
Manilow's Even Now
Slaughter in TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
gle, earning Manilow his first Grammy. Several years later,
"The secret of collaboration is the artistic differences," says
Dick Clark approached the three songwriters about adapting

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