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...pyramid wasn't the only thing not working in Atlanta. Shortly after the run was finished, Disney's theatrical honchos fired the director, choreographer and design team and set out to do a major retooling. After two big Broadway successes, the entertainment giant seemed on the verge of its first stage pratfall. Not everybody on the Great White Way was prepared to shed tears...
...fall of 1998, all anyone wanted to talk about was the pyramid. It was a giant motorized contraption that dominated the stage during the Atlanta pre-Broadway tryout of Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, Disney's musical retelling of the tale of ancient Egypt that was the basis for Verdi's famous opera. The pyramid opened, it closed, it transformed itself into different sets. It seemed a suitably dazzling follow-up to Julie Taymor's innovative production of The Lion King, Disney's Broadway hit. The trouble was it didn't work, at least not very often. "Every time...
...would I...have staged this horrible scene and then disturbed it myself--pulled the tape off her mouth, carried her upstairs... If I'd have staged it, I would've wanted the police to see it as I staged it." O.K., but why did you try to fly to Atlanta shortly after the body was found? "We had been asked to leave the house," he explains. "We had nowhere to go. We [had] lived in Atlanta for 25 years...
Forget Leo. I'm saving myself for Joel. His articles are the most entertaining I read all week. AMY GORE Atlanta...
...Kovach joined the Nieman Foundation in 1989 after a stint at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He resigned from his position there after management asked him to tone down editorials that were critical of area businesses...