Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour, a shimmering, mysterious depiction of rootless and religiously obsessed blacks in the early 20th century. The best work of August Wilson, the stage's foremost poet of the American black experience, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for Fences when it reached Broadway...
...PRINCESS BRIDE Like Broadway's Into the Woods, William Goldman's script throws an open-house party for fairy-tale heroes, villains and a beyond- gorgeous princess (Robin Wright). Revisionist fun for the whole family...
...RICHEST SPOOK Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, which doesn't open until Jan. 26 but has already had the largest advance sale ($15 million) in Broadway history...
...theater program at Carnegie-Mellon University, Hunter hit New York City. One day, hurrying to audition for a Beth Henley play, she met the author in a stalled elevator, and a few weeks later Henley signed Hunter to replace Mary Beth Hurt in Crimes of the Heart on Broadway. "She picks up a script of mine, and it becomes alive," says Henley. "Holly and I share a Southern sensibility: that joyous- despairing view of life...
...fondly. The accomplished performers who wrote the show and some of the musical selections -- Mark Hardwick and Debra Monk (who collaborated previously on the 1981 off-Broadway hit Pump Boys and Dinettes), Mary Murfitt and Mike Craver -- are all Middle Americans by upbringing, not New York City wise guys. They've been there. When Debbie sings an ode to shopping malls and interstates called Ohio Afternoon ("Ohio fun . . . diesels dragging out on Highway 1"), she gets all misty. When Mark and Mike have at a couple of Zez Confrey ivory ticklers like Dizzy Fingers and Coaxing the Piano, their doofus...