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By Laura Collins-Hughes Headlines at the time called Floyd Collins a “cave captive,” a “prisoner of nature’s dungeon” — dramatic language, but accurate, and the American public was ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In “Floyd Collins,” playing a hardscrabble Kentuckian trapped while exploring a cave, the actor finds inspiration in the claustrophobic ...
In Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Floyd Collins, creators Tina Landau and Adam Guettel resurrect their touchstone project, the odd, sometimes slow but mostly beautiful musical they first ...
Since “Piazza” is Guettel’s second musical, critical attention must focus on what came before such sonorous genius, and that’s “Floyd Collins,” which played Off Broadway’s ...
At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th Street. “Floyd Collins” is a story split in two. There’s the claustrophobic and cold Kentucky cave where the title spelunker, played by a golden ...
CRITIC'S PICK* Still, Floyd Collins reaches the sublime, and that is a rare achievement in any work of art... One of the wonders of the show’s glorious-sounding new production... is how far from ...
Spelunking is not exactly a go-to subject for a musical. Yet Adam Guettel and Tina Landau saw something in the true story of Floyd Collins, a cave explorer who famously got trapped underground for ...
The magical elixir of celebrity proves unhelpful, and maybe even fatal, to the title character in “Floyd Collins,” the 1996 musical being produced on Broadway for the first time by Lincoln ...
NEW YORK — In the first moments of Tina Landau and Adam Guettel’s “Floyd Collins,” the spring musical at Lincoln Center set in the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky in 1925, the titular ...
Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, remains one of the most unique concert ...
The Broadway musical based on the plight of Floyd Collins, a cave explorer who became trapped underground in 1925, looks stunning. But what does it really want to show? Senior Editor and Writer ...
Wikipedia says he’s written six shows, but I’ve only heard of three. The first was Floyd Collins, which had a brief, disappointing off-Broadway run in 1996, when he was 32 years old.