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PEOPLE, Page 77Singin' in The Scam
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
A splashy musical inspired by a dead tycoon who pilfered
close to $1 billion from worker pension funds has all the
resounding appeal of a cute romantic comedy based on Hitler and
Eva Braun. And yet where one man sees morbidity, another sees
dizzying opportunity. Welcome to Maxwell: The Musical, the
latest brainchild of British producer and former ROBERT MAXWELL
colleague Evan Steadman. Expected to open in London next year,
the play will follow Maxwell's rise from a shoeless Czech lad
to his fall from grace as England's reigning tabloid baron. All
that drama and the songs of Gilbert and Sullivan to boot. Says
Steadman of his days with Cap'n Bob: "I saw so much chicanery,
hilarity and mirth that I said, `This will make a great
musical.' " A wacky idea? Sure, admits Steadman, but "Maxwell
was an extraordinary man -- villain, vagabond, thief, of course,
but a remarkable villain, vagabond, thief."