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...balance had been lost, both in the Bombay of Indira Gandhi's 1975 Emergency and in Mistry's fearsome vision of the city where he was born and raised. When a novelist of his caliber despairs at human cruelty, the results are often annihilating...
...also haunted by memories of the real love of his life, a Catholic Goan whom he did not marry in deference to the "marriage arrangers, the wilful manufacturers of misery," a failure of courage that resulted in scandal and tragedy. His joyless family resides in a spacious apartment in Bombay's Chateau Felicity...
...Webber rushes around the production's South London offices dispensing advice and suggestions. "Producing someone else's work is a joy, and I can bring quite a bit to the party," he enthuses. In the main rehearsal room, around 40 casually clad actors are ready for daybreak in a Bombay slum. This, notes Lloyd Webber, is the show's opening: "You see the sunrise, Bombay slowly comes to life." The sequence is thrilling, with one man loudly selling chaya (tea), two women praying silently at a shrine, street sweepers, everywhere individual characters convincingly integrated into a complex society - all underscored...
...London theatergoers who will hear these songs. Rahman's huge following back home will want the album (released in the U.K. in June and due in India by year's end). Lloyd Webber has an eye on New York and, if a suitable venue can be found or built, Bombay. First though, they must win over London. "It's the same feeling I had with Cats," he says of his 1981 hit, which finally closed in London May 11. "We all know we're doing something extremely unusual, and we won't know what we've got until...
...anti-piracy CDs by coloring the discs' edges with a decidedly low-tech magic marker. Prodi Gets Direct n European Commission President Romano Prodi surprised friends and foes alike by calling for direct E.U. taxation. The proposal has already met resistance in France, Britain and Germany. Subcontinental Drift n Bombay's stock market tumbled to a year's low as India and Pakistan ramped up their war threats. When this happened in 1999 the index quickly rebounded to gain 26%, but a fragile world economy may prevent such optimism this time around...