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- PEOPLE, Page 77Singin' in The Scam
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- By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- 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."
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