Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Merengue technique involves no free-form violence, like slam dancing, and no shin-splinting fanciness, as in the mambo. It is less taxing than the tango, which caught on anew with the Broadway success of Tango Argentino, a show that spawned a fast-stepping tour and any number of gift certificates for dancing lessons. "Merengue's not a real complicated step pattern," says Lynne Frazier of the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Burlingame, Calif. "You're not fighting to keep up with your feet...
...track of his grail. Then there is the uncut version of The Stand. Then there are plans to study French in order to finish Livre Noir, a detective story in French, "the language that turns dirt into romance." And there is a project to turn Carrie into a Broadway musical, with choreography by Debbie Allen. Plus an original story for TV, an 875-page screenplay that will run over 14 episodes. "All right, you son-of-a-bitch, get to work," says the muse in flattop and coveralls. And the giant meekly obeys, preparing to flood the market with millions...
...Broadway show was assembled by Ray Stricklyn, who also enacts Williams, and Charlotte Chandler, who visited the playwright for her book of interviews The Ultimate Seduction. The result is a hybrid of the public and the private man: Stricklyn speaks in the guise of Williams addressing a reporter, so his rambling 90-min. monologue is unmistakably a performance. Even so, there are passages of naked confession. The time is Williams' declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks...
...America. This is what really happened to Bess after she left Catfish Row. Following its three-week run in Philadelphia, Queenie Pie moves to Washington's Kennedy Center for a month. After that, there ought to be a boat that is leaving for New York City. Are you listening, Broadway...
...first outing on the Great White Way is now the longest-running musical in Broadway history (eleven years) and has grossed $242 million to date. So who can blame Composer Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line), 42, if his latest project sounds the least little bit as if it could be called A Beauty Pageant? Actually titled Smile and loosely based on the 1975 film of that name, the show chronicles three days of competition and camaraderie among a group of high school contestants in a California beauty pageant. Some 3,000 girls auditioned for the 16 roles in the musical...