N.Y. City Opera's 'Séance on a Wet Afternoon'
NEW YORK - Reports of the New York City Opera's decline have been exaggerated, at least at the moment. Though the company has the perpetual challenge of living next door to the glittering Metropolitan Opera, it's gambling sizably with Séance on a Wet Afternoon, a stage adaptation of the 1964 film by Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz, best known for Wicked.