'Giant' Is a Cause for Celebration
The authors of the new musical “Giant” possess the same soaring ambition that motivates their larger-than-life characters. Book writer Sybille Pearson and composer-lyricist Michael John LaChiusa have set themselves a daunting task in wrestling Edna Ferber’s sweeping 1952 novel about the creation of then-modern Texas into shape as a three-hour show. That they have succeeded as much as they have…