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PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 28 November 2015
Musical ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ hits the road
MARK KENNEDY and a chance at musical the piece,” Brown said. “To
AP Drama Writer redemption. be able to really say, ‘This
NEW YORK (AP) — On tour The Broadway show that is the way we meant the
this winter is a Broadway sparked it — starring show to be’ is really gratify-
musical about the one that Kelli O’Hara and Steven ing.”
got away, in more ways Pasquale — closed after The musical is about a
than one. just 137 performances in four-day love affair in 1965
“The Bridges of Madison 2014 but the show’s staging between a world-weary
County,” with a superb and Brown’s Tony Award- photographer on assign-
score by Jason Robert winning songs get another ment to shoot a series of
Brown, starts an eight- chance to soar. covered bridges in Iowa,
month U.S. tour on Satur- “I’m very grateful that and an Italian-American
day that features both a these audiences around housewife. It’s based on
story about a lost soul mate the country will get a much the Robert James Waller
more direct experience of novel, which was made
into a 1995 movie starring
Meryl Streep and Clint East- In this Nov. 18, 2015 photo, Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew
wood. Samonsky pose for a photo in New York. Associated Press
The touring version kicks
off — appropriately — in California. “I think those fans of Brown’s music after
Iowa on Saturday at the simple, honest musicals re- hearing his mid-1990s ab-
Des Moines Civic Center ally speak to me. I mean, stract musical “Songs for a
and then travels to Cali- I love a big, fancy song- New World.” (Says Samon-
fornia, Texas, Arizona, Ne- and-dance show, too, but sky: “I can definitely geek
vada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, when you can do a musi- out being in this show.”)
Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, cal like this, it’s really spe- Brown, who will be con-
North Carolina, Tennes- cial.” ducting the shows in Des
see, Michigan, Minnesota, For Stanley, the tour will be Moines, at Los Angeles’
South Carolina and Wash- a kind of homecoming: Ahmanson Theatre and at
ington, D.C. She was born and raised in the Kennedy Center, said
It stars Elizabeth Stanley, Iowa until moving at age the whole touring cast im-
who was last on Broadway 10. She’s also looking for- pressed him with their abil-
as a repressed anthropolo- ward to seeing friends at ity to get genuine and per-
gist in the revival of “On the stops in Nashville, Tennes- sonal.
Town” and Andrew Samo- see, and Houston, Texas, “No one was going to
nsky, who was in the recent as well as playing The Fab- get into this tour who was
Broadway revival of “The ulous Fox in St. Louis, the not able to draw from the
Mystery of Edwin Drood.” closest stop to her parents ground, pull something
“When the auditions came now in Camp Point, Illinois. from inside of them. It’s
up, it was one of the few Like Samonsky, Stanley saw a really committed cast,
times where I allowed my- “The Bridges of Madison which is important. It’s a
self to want a job,” said County” when it was on show that asks for a lot of
Samonsky, from Ventura, Broadway and both were emotional connection.”q
Harry Potter author takes to twitter
to talk about Snape
BY DANICA KIRKA him. devil: he died to save the
ASSOCIATED PRESS “Harry hoped in his heart wizarding world,” Rowling
LONDON (AP) -- Harry that he too would be for- tweeted.
Potter readers have long given. The deaths at the The question of Snape has
wanted to know: Why did Battle of Hogwarts would dogged readers in part
the boy wizard choose to haunt Harry forever.” because he returned to
honor Severus Snape - a Rowling said that while a side of the villain, Lord
teacher who had been so whole essay could be writ- Voldemort, and killed
mean to him? ten on why Harry gave his Harry’s hero, headmas-
Author JK Rowling took to son Snape’s name, it goes ter Albus Dumbledore, in
Twitter to answer the en- to the “heart of who Harry one of the later books in
during question on Friday was, post-war.” the series, “The Half Blood
in an exchange with a fan Rowling’s seven Harry Pot- Prince.”
who asked why one of ter novels have sold more In the final book, “The
Harry’s children received than 450 million copies Deathly Hallows,” Rowling
the middle name of Sever- and been made into eight reveals that Snape was
us. films. Readers eagerly acting on Dumbledore’s
The acclaimed author ex- seek clues about her think- orders and had protected
plained that Harry paid ing behind the character. Harry at school out of love
tribute to Snape because “Snape is all grey. You for Harry’s mother, Lily.
of “forgiveness and grati- can’t make him a saint: “Snape died for Harry out
tude.” Though Snape bul- he was vindictive & bully- of love for Lily,” Rowling
lied Harry, he also saved ing. You can’t make him a said.q
