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Panting Philosophy. In the beginning it was called Beatlemania. Today it is called Beatlemania. The phenomenon, moreover, now laced with wistful nostalgia and what passes for a sort of panting social philosophy, far transcends the domain of disk jockeydom and bedroom stereo. Would anyone in his right mind pay $17.50 for a ballpoint pen bearing the emblem of Grand Funk Railroad? In Atlanta, Beatles' pens are fetching that much-and even a kid with only 25?can acquire a Beatles bubble-gum card. Not to mention the lapel buttons, rings, mirrors, metal trays, T shirts and posters that variously...
...generation of pre-and post-pubes want to get some idea of what the thrill was all about. Right now nothing caters to the twin needs of Beatlemaniacs quite as emphatically or successfully as a hot new show on Broadway called, with roaring show-business logic, Beatlemania. Two months after-it began, bereft of plot and without benefit of an official opening night, Beatlemania is playing nightly to packed houses. The stars of the show are four Beatles look-and sound-alikes, who during the evening play and sing 29 Beatles songs. Meanwhile, on a series of scrims and screens...
Psychedelic Statement. If this were all, Beatlemania might be dismissed as an ingenious multimedia ripoff. But Producer Steven Leber, 34, who thought the whole thing up, and his partner David Krebs, 37, both successful rock impresarios, have tried to make some sort of psychedelic statement. "What this show really is," says Krebs, "is a panorama of changing forces within American society. In the '60s, what Bob Dylan said, what the Beatles said, really set the tone for kids in terms of drugs, obedience to authority, war, parental guidance. Not that everything they said was right. But that...
...Beatlemania--Colonial Theater...
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