Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when Broadway's musical well has run so dry that recycled revues like It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues and Fosse compete for Tonys, it comes as a pleasant shock to realize that Stephen Sondheim has had an unproduced show in his trunk for more than 40 years. The young composer wrote Saturday Night in the mid-'50s, but a planned Broadway opening was scuttled when the producer died. It was mounted for the first time by a small company in London in 1997. Now Chicago's Pegasus Players has given the musical (with two new songs added...
...Exhibit A, a how-to guide to scoring with a girl, and What More Do I Need?, a cynical-sentimental tribute to New York City: "The dust is thick and it's galling/ It simply can't be excused/ In winter even the falling/ Snow feels used." O.K., Broadway, your move...
...Beatles, rock musicians --Marlon Brando, actor --Coco Chanel, designer --Charlie Chaplin, comic genius --Le Corbusier, architect --Bob Dylan, folk musician --T.S. Eliot, poet --Aretha Franklin, soul musician --Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer --Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of TV's Muppets --James Joyce, novelist --Pablo Picasso, artist --Rodgers & Hammerstein, Broadway showmen --Bart Simpson, cartoon character --Frank Sinatra, singer --Steven Spielberg, moviemaker --Igor Stravinsky, classical musician --Oprah Winfrey, TV talk-show host...
...less certain possibility involves moving the contents of the Sackler Gallery, currently located on Broadway Avenue, to a second museum to be built on the site...
...that meeting, held primarily to discuss University plans for a tunnel underneath Broadway to connect the Fogg and Sackler museums, Cuno hinted obliquely that he would like to build a museum on the river...