"Note to Playwrights: Don't Bet You Can Upstage Beethoven," by John Heilpern
Prodigies with musical talent kissed by God have occasionally been portrayed onstage with great success. But what if the play can't begin to compete with the music? That's mostly my response, I regret, to <cite>Opus</cite>, Michael Hollinger's melodramatic new play with music (by Beethoven, Bartok and Bach).