Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the auditions start, there are hundreds of people standing in the drizzle outside Broadway's Royale Theater. By midday, as the skies clear, the line has grown to perhaps 1,000. They wait for hours for the chance to spend, in most cases, scant minutes standing onstage before being rejected and hastened out the door. A few are on a lark, and some may be on a mystical private trip: one young woman wears a lifelike head-to-toe bear costume, which she refuses to take off even to dance. But most are serious of purpose, and many...
...this day in New York City, the call is for a movie that many of the auditioners in line view as an anthem to their lives: A Chorus Line, a film version of the Pulitzer-prizewinning musical play that last year became the longest-running show in Broadway history. A sort of downbeat reworking of Busby Berkeley's 1933 movie 42nd Street, in which a member of the ensemble suddenly becomes a star, Chorus Line depicts the ruthless process of casting a Broadway musical; it evolved from the actual experiences of its first performers. Although even weeknight tickets...
...change lives. It is like a piece of elegant sportswear: slip right into it, shrug it off. Jackson has written and performed ebulliently with Paul McCartney; he often appears in bright band jackets; he has palled around a bit with Sean Ono Lennon and has taken him to a Broadway show. It should be clear from all this that Jackson is smitten not only with the Beatles' legacy but with their mystique. Unlike the Beatles, however, he has a vast audience but a small constituency...
Harvard students vote at one of three polling places, the Broadway fire house (Freshman dorms, Adams, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell. Old Leverett, Quincy and Winthrop Houses): Peabody School (Cabot, Currier and North Houses), and Corporal Burns playground (Mather, Dunster, and Leverett Towers...
Procinct 6-3 Adams House. Apley Court. Claverly Hall. Yard and Union dorms. Divinity Hall, Eliot House, Hastings Hall, Kirkland House; Leverett House (except F and G entries), Lowell House, Quicy House and Winthrop House --Fire House, Broadway St. entrance...