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Sabath's powerful performance stems from his acting experience while in high school. In his freshmen year at Harvard, Sabath played a minor role as an evil merchant in Aladdin at the Agassiz, but in high school Sabath played such roles as Faggin in Oliver Twist, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and surprisingly, but yet not so surprisingly, Tevye. Of all these roles, Sabath says he favors the role of Tevye...
Music and voice lessons stayed dominant until the spring of her sophomore year, when she began acting in plays with music-starting with Aladdin, in which she sang the play's only song, and going on to Adams House (Tango), the Ex (Blood Wedding), and the Loeb mainstage (Three Penny Opera and Working). When it came time to cast The Boys from Syracuse this December, the ART called her and asked...
...demographics and canny marketing explains Atlantic City's success in competing with Las Vegas. The Nevada gaming mecca, situated 300 miles from the population center of its major market, Southern California, has suffered badly from the recession as tourism has dwindled. Several casinos there, including the famed Aladdin and the Dunes, are reportedly for sale, as is the Riviera, a once popular showcase for Hollywood performers...
That magic mountain of money is not conjured up by rubbing Aladdin's lamp. It comes from a gambling alliance that bases its calculations on a measure of snob appeal and tested blue-chip talents. After all, no other musical can boast a T.S. Eliot as its lyricist, so to speak. Even if Eliot was playfully doodling for his godchildren and friends in his 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...when Engelbert Humperdinck appeared there over the Fourth of July weekend, the casino set all-time records. Says Norton: "We've basically eliminated most of the performers who don't cover their own costs." No casino is likely to repeat the mistake of the Aladdin Hotel, which put Donnie and Marie Osmond into its Baghdad Room last summer. "Their crowds drank Cokes and left," says one Vegas marketing analyst...