This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

In 1987, Time referred to his love of puzzlemaking as " legendary in theater circles ," adding that the central character in Anthony Shaffer's hit play Sleuth was inspired by Sondheim.

Writer David Cairns called Amadeus " myth-mongering " and argued against Shaffer's alleged portrait of Mozart as " two contradictory beings, sublime artist and fool ", positing instead that Mozart was " fundamentally well-integrated ".

The production was based on Anthony Shaffer's original The Wicker Man script and David Pinner's novel Ritual.

Forman's next important achievement was the adaption of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus in 1984 — retelling the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

Shaffer's memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin ' Show-biz Saga ( co-authored by David Ritz ) was published by Flying Dolphin Press ( an imprint of Random House Inc .' s Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group ) on October 6, 2009.

The Shaffer's Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Shaffer's first play, The Salt Land ( 1954 ), was presented on the BBC.

Shaffer's next piece was a double bill, The Private Ear / The Public Eye, two plays each containing three characters and concerning aspects of love.

In 1963, the National Theatre was established, and virtually all of Shaffer's subsequent work was done in its service.

Shaffer's most notable work was the play Sleuth ( 1970 ), which he adapted for the film version which starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, and was Oscar nominated.

The remake did not use a single line of Shaffer's script, and was considered unsuccessful in comparison to the original.

In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense competition ( which included David Bowie and Mikhail Baryshnikov ) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus.

She also starred in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy / White Lies, in 1967, which was the production in which both Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave made their Broadway debuts.

In 1987 Peter Shaffer's play Lettice and Lovage was a hit with Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzack, running for 2 years.

Copper Green was mentioned in Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's memoir, Operation Dark Heart on page 257: " The interrogation program, called Copper Green, was authorized, but a lot of us felt it wasn't appropriate and just wasn't right.

The play was directed by John Dexter -- who had directed Shaffer's previous play The Royal Hunt of the Sun, and would go on to direct Equus -- with what Shaffer called " blazing precision.

In 1970, Peter Shaffer's twin brother, Anthony Shaffer, had adapted Black Comedy into a screenplay, announcing that it would be his next project, but the film was not produced.

Kirshner's wooden presentation style was later lampooned on Saturday Night Live by Paul Shaffer, most notably in Shaffer's introduction of the Blues Brothers during the duo's television debut.

Belushi said that he had tried to talk Shaffer out of working on the album in the first place in order to avoid sharing Shaffer's talents with another SNL-related project.

This town, like many in the area, in primarily residential, with a small Riverside convenience store, Daniel Shaffer's hardware store, and Country Bargains store.

* The Wicker Man ( 1979 ) – co-written with Robin Hardy, based on Shaffer's screenplay

However, the rehearsals ( with Jones, Cropper, Dunn, and drummer Anton Fig of Shaffer's “ World's Most Dangerous Band ”, featured on Late Night with David Letterman ) went so well that the group decided to play some dates together.

* Milo Tindle in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth with Simon MacCorkindale, tour of Britain ( 2008 )

In February 1973 he co-starred with Diana Rigg in Molière's The Misanthrope for which he won his second Evening Standard award ; followed in July 1973 by the role of psychiatrist Martin Dysart (" played on a knife edge of professional skill and personal disgust by McCowen ", according to Irving Wardle reviewing for The Times ) in the world premiere of Peter Shaffer's Equus.

The first was The Tempest with music by Sibelius and the next was the only known production of Peter Shaffer's masterpiece, Amadeus, featuring Ray Birk as Salieri and a chorus of Opera San Jose singers performing Mozart's Requiem.

Hazlewood also wrote " This Town ", a song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra that appeared on his 1969 album Greatest Hits and is the basis for Paul Shaffer's " Small Town News " segment theme on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Together with his Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter, he appeared in a stage revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus at the Gielgud Theatre in London, and later from October 2008 in a short run of the play at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway which ended in February 2009.

On September 18, 2006, the Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Investigations released a report stating that Shaffer was put on leave, that the crew responsible for removing any classified documents from his office to prevent his taking them home with him found that he did not have any of the Able Danger-related documents trusted to him he claimed he had, and that despite the fact that the Army cleared him of any wrongdoing in the allegations " DIA officials would have taken action to revoke LTC Shaffer's access and clearance regardless of his disclosures to the DIA IG, the 9 / 11 Commission staff members, Members of Congress, or the media.

In 1982, the Appalachian Trail Conference published Shaffer's Walking With Spring commercially.

DOD took the highly unusual step of purchasing all available copies of Shaffer's book at a cost of $ 47, 000 and destroying them to deny the public the ability to read the book.

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).

Donnelly returned to Broadway a number of times, replacing Albert Finney in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in 1968, playing Milo Tindle in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth and appearing as Frederick Treves opposite David Bowie as The Elephant Man.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

Since Late Night followed The Tonight Show, Letterman couldn't have a sidekick like Ed McMahon, and Paul Shaffer's band couldn't include a horn section like Doc Severinsen's.

Paul Shaffer's " World's Most Dangerous Band " became " The CBS Orchestra ", a not-so-subtle jab at NBC regarding the show's new home, and a play on the NBC Orchestra of the long running The Tonight Show.

Joseph is prominently featured in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, and the movie based upon it.

Shaffer's canon contains a unique mix of philosophical dramas and satirical comedies.

On 27 July 1965, Jacobi played Brindsley Miller in the first production of Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy.

In February 2008, he played the psychiatrist in Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Peter Shaffer's Equus.

He appeared in the title role in a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, which flopped, but he had a great success in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, playing conquistador Francisco Pizarro to David Carradine's Tony Award-nominated Atahuallpa.