Word: broadway
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Tepper, 26, is one of a growing number of producers who are seeking out that crowd. She has co-produced three shows that have thrived largely on the strength of the younger audience: Freak, John Leguizamo's one-man show that had a successful Broadway run last season; I'm Still Here...Damn It!, Sandra Bernhard's monologue-plus-music, which has just opened on Broadway after a hit engagement downtown; and De La Guarda, a performance troupe from Argentina that has become a hot off-Broadway attraction. Joining them are a batch of new plays making a determined effort...
When Rent opened on Broadway in 1996, it seemed to augur a new era of hip, youthful Broadway shows. Wrong. The Broadway musical after Rent has looked pretty much like the Broadway musical before it. The only recent show that seems aimed squarely at the teen market is the hopelessly square Footloose, a clunky stage version of the 1984 movie...
Away from Broadway, however, several smaller shows are bringing in throngs of young people. Often they do it by breaking genre boundaries, mixing in elements of rock concerts or performance art. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a hot ticket for months, is the life story of a transsexual rock star, told in the form of an autobiographical nightclub act. De La Guarda's circus-like theater piece, Villa Villa, features performers who swoop and soar on cables above the audience (which stands during the entire 60-min. spectacle). "These shows are reinventing theatrical language," says David Binder...
...theater succeed in wooing young people? George Wachtel, who conducted the 1997 audience study, blames their lack of interest on a 1980s decline in arts education in schools. "Today's 18-to-24-year-olds did not have the exposure in their formative years," he says. Most Broadway shows, along with groups like the Theatre Development Fund, are trying to address that by sponsoring organized class visits and events like Kids' Night, when children accompanied by an adult can get in free. Another factor keeping kids away, of course, is high ticket prices. Since its opening, Rent has set aside...
...born and died in Italy, yet the influence on America of a grubby street urchin named Salvatore Lucania ranged from the lights of Broadway to every level of law enforcement, from national politics to the world economy. First, he reinvented himself as Charles ("Lucky") Luciano. Then he reinvented the Mafia...