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...unisex barber shop-think of Steel Magnolias crossed with The Mousetrap-this interactive comedy is one of the best-kept successes in show business. In 1980 Shear Madness was capitalized at $60,000. Since then it has grossed $54 million while playing to 3.8 million people in 23,000 performances in the U.S. (St. Louis, Philadelphia and Austin as well as the cities mentioned above) and around the world (Montreal, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Budapest)-but never in New York City, the titular capital of live theater. Many audience members are repeaters, genial cultists; they come back bringing...
...best-kept secret in Cambridge," Sullivan says. "We're waiting to see what the next year will bring us. We need some affordable housing to preserve this rich community...
Bakersfield P.D. is the best-kept secret of the new season. To find the show on the weekly Nielsen chart, one practically has to turn the newspaper upside down: for the season to date, the Fox show ranks 99th out of a possible 101. Despite the bleak numbers, Fox programmers have renewed the show for the entire season -- evidence of either a sorry lack of replacements on the bench or a heartening faith in what is easily the best new comedy of the season...
...million) foreign movie -- thrilled Davidson. The minimoguls at Miramax, the film's U.S. distributor, might have been tickled too, since The Crying Game received five other important nominations (for best picture, actor, director, screenplay and editing), which promises that the film's domestic gross, a robust $16 million so far, could double or better. But the Miramaxers were spooked. They had helped make Davidson's identity the best-kept open secret in recent movie history. Would the ingenue's Oscar bid spoil their hiding game...
...best-kept secrets in Harvard sports these days in the men's volleyball team...