Baz brightens B'way with brash `Boheme'.

From: Variety | Date: December 16, 2002| Author: Isherwood, Charles | Copyright information

LA BOHEME

(BROADWAY THEATER; 1,697 SEATS; $95 TOP)

NEW YORK A Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Emanuel Azenberg, Bazmark Live, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Korea Pictures/Doyun Seol, J. Sine/I. Pittelman/S. Nederlander, Fox Searchlight Pictures presentation of the opera in two acts, with music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. Music director and principal conductor, Constantine Kitsopoulos. Sets, Catherin...

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