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...called little guys have kept their cool. Rationally enough, most have stopped putting new money into stock or bond purchases, but few are rushing to sell. "I've done nothing," says Don Halbert, 41, a project leader and biologist with Abbott Labs in suburban Chicago. "I had a couple of stocks that were doing so well that at the beginning of last week I decided it was time to sell them. But then the market started to die, so I'm hanging on to everything," at least until prices recover a bit. After 2 1/2 years in the market, Aimee...
When George Abbott unveiled his baseball musical Damn Yankees on Broadway in May 1955, a month before his 68th birthday, he almost certainly didn't expect to attend opening night of a revival nearly 39 years later. He surely didn't expect to be 106 and actively supervising revisions to his libretto about a middle-aged man who sells his soul to the devil for one glorious season as a long-ball hitter. But Abbott was more than a ceremonial presence at last week's gala. He was in the audience for previews night after night -- taking notes. Since well...
...Yankees is Abbott's 125th career production as writer, director, producer or actor. Erstwhile protege Harold Prince, 66, whose first big shows as a producer were Abbott's Pajama Game and the original Yankees, wasn't yet born when Abbott burst to writing fame in 1925 with the melodrama Broadway and the comedy Three Men on a Horse. (Both have been revived on Broadway in recent years, the former in a staging by Abbott himself.) Prince recalls asking Abbott a couple of years ago what became of a play he was writing: "He told me it wasn't working...
...Brien and Abbott have cunningly updated without updating. Like the creators of the long-running current revival of Guys and Dolls, they have kept the show in period but with attitude -- sardonically exaggerated sets, saturated colors, a heightened performing style that lets audiences feel it's O.K. to be a little distant from the world of the play. Period references have been added, many with a snide edge not found in the original. The devil says he's been busy designing an Edsel, the Ford fiasco that went onto the market two years after the show first opened. When...
...rest of the AL East, the New York Yankees made a major move in acquiring Terry Mulholland from the Philadephia Phillies. The rotation of Mulholland, Jimmy Key and Jim Abbott will give the Orioles their stiffest competition...