Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mark Morris, who have put the vocabulary of classical dance to new uses, not always successfully but with purpose and bite. The festival also misses the participation of Martins' co-director Jerome Robbins, a master American choreographer. Robbins bowed out because he is hard at work on a major Broadway production -- a retrospective of highlights from his many musicals -- for next fall...
...Mainstage set, designed by John A. Claflin, is also both professional and creative. Excepting the obvious creaking that accompanies all set changes, the set rivals any found in an off-Broadway production...
...GOSPEL AT COLONUS. An unlikely mix of glorious gospel music and Sophoclean scenes yields a cheering new Broadway musical...
...wearisome leisure. As a tyrant, Macbeth seems a paranoiac cross between Herod, slaughtering a legion of innocents to be sure he got the right one, and the pathetic people who kill entire families on purported instruction from God. Thus it is scant surprise that the Macbeth that opened on Broadway last week used up three directors, two sets and five Macduffs during a six-city tryout tour...
Despite the bumpy beginnings, the production has triumphed at the box office. It took in $599,964 in one week in Toronto, believed to be a world record for a nonmusical, and reached Broadway with advance sales of $2 million...