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REST IN PEACE MS. LENA HORNE
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Horne: The
Lady and Her Music was a 1981 Broadway musical revue,
written for and starring American
singer and actress Lena Horne.
The musical was produced by Michael Frazier and Fred Walker, and the
subsequent
musical soundtrack was produced by Quincy Jones. The
show opened on May 12, 1981, and
after 333 performances, closed on June 30, 1982, Horne's 65th birthday.
Horne
then toured the show in the U.S. and Canada, and performed the show in
London
and Stockholm in the Summer of 1984.
[edit] Critical reception
The Broadway production opened on May 12, 1981, after thirteen
previews, and
met with an overwhelmingly positive critical response. Stephen
Holden, revewing the subsequent album of
the show in Rolling
Stone, wrote that Horne had "turned the conventions of the
one-person
extravaganza inside out...Instead of a self-glorifying ego trip, her
performance
is a shared journey of self-discovery about the human cost (to the
audience as
well as the singer) of being a symbol", adding that Horne's singing
"hits peaks
of ferocity, tenderness, playfulness and sheer delight that would have
seemed
unthinkable in her glamour-girl days...her performance here is a
sustained cry
of affirmation, and because that affirmation acknowledges the
bitterness,
cynicism and toughness of the world, it's exceptionally moving in ways
that
conventionally optimistic musical celebrations rarely are".[4]
Newsweek described Horne as "the
most awesome performer to have hit Broadway in years",[2] with the
New York
Times said Horne "transforms each song...into an intensely personal
story
that we've never quite heard before".[3]
The show was broadcast on PBS on December 7, 1984. New YorkJohn
Leonard positively reviewed the film, adding that Horne transformed
"pretty
tunes and banal lyrics into something that is both erotic and political,
a
fretting of raw edges"[5] magazine's
[edit] Awards
At the 1981 Drama
Desk Awards, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music was nominated
for
four Drama Desk Awards, winning one. It lost the Drama Desk Award for
Outstanding Musical to The Pirates
of Penzance. Arthur
Faria was nominated for the Outstanding
Director of a Musical, and Thomas Skelton for Outstanding Lighting
Design.
Horne won the Drama
Desk
Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. In 1981 Horne also won a
special
Tony
Award at the 35th Tony Awards,
a
special award from the New
York Drama Critics'
Circle,[6] and the City of New
York's Handel
Medallion.[7]
At the 24th
Grammy Awards, Quincy Jones and Horne won the Grammy
Award for Best
Musical Show Album, and Horne won the Grammy for Best
Vocal
Performance, Female.[8]
| Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music | |
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| 1981 Broadway poster | |
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| Productions | 1981-1982 Broadway 1982-1983 US National Tour, Canada 1984 West End, Stockholm, Sweden |