Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things as Pooh-n-You games at Club Disney and the upcoming film Toy Story 2. Katzenberg claims that as head of the studio from 1984 to 1994, he is due 2% of all income from films and TV shows made during that period--in perpetuity. (Think sequels, videos, Broadway shows and merchandising.) Disney says that by leaving in 1994, two years before his contract was up, Katzenberg forfeited that booty. He was, however, paid a final package of $7.5 million...
...history of the blues, from traditional African chants to Motown, with side glances at Hank Williams and Peggy Lee. The rotund Ron Taylor (one of five co-authors) is the show's soulful heart, while Eloise Laws and Gretha Boston have the most impressive vocal turns. So poor was Broadway's musical season that this minimally produced concert got four Tony nominations. Talk about the blues...
Richard Rodgers' grandson, the most provocative and promising of post-Sondheim theatrical songwriters, has taken a sharp turn on the road to Broadway: his latest composition is a song cycle about love, sin, doubt and transcendence. The music is composed in an utterly personal style that blends pop, gospel and classical influences; the lyrics weave together Greek mythology and Christian hymnody to complex, unsettling effect. Persuasively performed on CD by singers such as Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin and Guettel, Myths & Hymns is a major event in American popular song...
...also went into three Starbucks stores in the Square--the one on Church Street, the one in the Garage, and the one next to Broadway Market as well as to one in Boston to observe Starbucks consumption first-hand...
...plays--works with imaginative ambition, a social context, plots--still exist, however, and two have arrived to end Broadway's season with a flourish. Amy's View has been dismissed, somewhat patronizingly, as a vehicle for Judi Dench, fresh from her Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. As Esme, the self-centered actress whose relationship with her daughter (Samantha Bond) deteriorates over the years, Dench is indeed a marvel, as impressive for what she doesn't do as what she does. This is no scenery-chewing cartoon of a theatrical grand dame but a tightly controlled and utterly convincing portrait...