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Producers put shows out on the road for three basic reasons: to prepare for Broadway; to capitalize on a Broadway success already attained; and occasionally, when a show's concept and stars are more marketable than its actual merits, to bypass Broadway's fierce competition and legion of reviewers. Steep staging costs have made offerings in the first category, known as tryouts, a vanishing breed. Nowadays pre-Broadway tryouts are usually limited to one city, unless a show has a big-name cast or is a revival of a fondly remembered musical, like the current tours of Cabaret and West...
...must be lawyers. American Civil Liberties Union attorneys complained about a plan to erect a 100-ft.-high cross at the state- owned Tamiami Park for a papal Mass in Miami. Under a compromise agreement, Catholic officials will cover the cross with black fabric until the day of the actual event. Finally, no one would know anything about the whole undertaking without the media. More than 16,000 members of the press have been accredited. Spann says they have all requested a personal interview with the Pope...
...fiasco behind him, President Reagan has placed a treaty with Gorbachev on intermediate-range nuclear missiles at the top of his agenda. By concluding such an agreement, Reagan believes he can salvage a powerful legacy in foreign affairs; he can be the first President in history to achieve an actual nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Soviets...
...three staged a symposium on triremes that attracted scholars from Greece and eventually led to the construction of a small section of the warship, which was successfully tested on the Thames. Intrigued by the undertaking, Greek officials offered to build an entire trireme. The actual building process, which took two years and about $700,000, hewed closely to original techniques, using Oregon pine (Mediterranean pines no longer grow tall and straight enough), 22,000 oak dowels and 17,000 handmade nails. A major deviation: the builders substituted steel rope for the hypozomata, the two lengths of twisted flax rope that...
RETIRING. Roger L. Stevens, 77, indefatigable chairman and guiding light of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a position he has held since 1961; in Washington. Stevens, a former real estate magnate and Broadway producer (Bus Stop), shepherded the actual complex into being in 1971. His successor: Ralph P. Davidson, 59, who steps down next year as chairman of the executive committee of Time Inc., and takes up Stevens' duties on July...