Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politically acute comic strip, Doonesbury, a national institution for some 15 years, appears in nearly 900 newspapers and is the first comic ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Spin-offs have been ubiquitous: more than 30 books, an NBC-TV special, a rock album and a Broadway musical, all written by Trudeau. His jabs have provoked outrage from targets as varied as Frank Sinatra and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Yet with just a handful of exceptions over the years -- mostly college speeches and prepared statements for charities -- Trudeau has steadfastly refused to engage in public give...
...late Trudeau has been breaking his self-imposed silence, and on behalf of a controversial project: Rap Master Ronnie, a cabaret revue lampooning the Reagan Administration. Begun in 1984 as an off-Broadway lark, the show has been staged in nine cities, including Washington, where it opened in October and has been extended into next year. Trudeau constantly revises, adding for Washington a parody of bargaining with the Soviets for the release of American Journalist Nicholas Daniloff. "I feel passionate about this," says Trudeau. "I want people to think about events during the Reagan years that we tend to forget...
...Ronnie is outwardly as genial as the President it satirizes. This Reagan (Jim Morris) smiles incessantly; he may be befuddled but he is never cruel. That was a strategic choice by Trudeau and the show's composer, Elizabeth Swados, a theater innovator (Runaways) with whom he also created the Broadway Doonesbury. Says Trudeau: "We wanted to co-opt Reagan's ingratiating style while dispelling the illusion that he doesn't mean the meanness of his policies...
...fromvintage shops in the area. Reddog sells men'stweed jackets for $15-35, and taffeta dresses for$30-75. At Oona's (1210 Mass. Ave.) you can findantique brocade vests for $15-$20, and men'sovercoats for $45-60. And for the hard-and-truerummager, Harbor Textile Waste (200 Broadway)sells used clothing for a dollar a pound...
...they are and so they will be, touring 60 cities in four months with an international ensemble of young skaters. Combining the invention of the Broadway musical, the grace of ballet and the speed of steel sliding across a smooth surface, they are zestfully -- and often wittily -- redefining that tired old branch of show business, the ice revue...