QUEENIE WHY? When George C. Wolfe first tried adapting Duke Ellington's unfinished work Queenie Pie in 1986 it was subtitled "A Jazz Operetta in the Key of Make Believe." Ellington called it a "street opera," and Long Beach Opera is producing it as his "only opera," but the musical oddity that opened on Sunday is […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:04PM on January 28, 2014