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...filling a need can help people overcome life's adversities. Rodney Angove Mountain View, California, U.S. The Joy of Sox! My great-grandfather Harry Frazee, who owned the Red Sox [Nov. 8] from 1916 to '23, did not sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees to finance a Broadway play, as the legendary Curse of the Bambino would have it. He kept his baseball, theatrical and real estate businesses entirely separate. The so-called curse of the past 86 years has been nothing but a pathetic excuse for more than eight decades of mediocre baseball, which is thankfully...
When her one-woman show Whoopi opens this week on Broadway, Whoopi Goldberg will return to the same theater in which she launched her career in 1984. The comedian and actress spoke last week to TIME'S Jeffrey Ressner about her new show, her old friends and the joke that got her into trouble while she was campaigning for John Kerry this fall...
Charlap, 38, can claim this music as a birthright. His father, who died when he was 7, was Broadway composer Moose Charlap (Peter Pan, Kelly) and his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, who toured with Benny Goodman and co-starred on Perry Como's 1960s TV show. In his parents' Manhattan apartment, young Bill mingled with composers like Charles Strouse, who wrote the musical Bye Bye Birdie, and lyricists like Alan and Marilyn Bergman (The Way We Were) and the one he called "Uncle Yip," E.Y. Harburg (Somewhere Over the Rainbow, April in Paris...
...that some dreams take longer than others. Back in 1988, after St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys had introduced him as a promising if lightweight young American director (and before Batman Forever sealed his place in the upper reaches of the Hollywood hierarchy), Schumacher decided to see Broadway's newest hit, The Phantom of the Opera. Even before he got the chance, Andrew Lloyd Webber, its composer, called him and mentioned that he wanted to bring the play to the big screen. "Every director in Hollywood wanted to do it," Schumacher recalls. "Because this was already the biggest...
Children's theater got a major boost in the mid-'90s with the arrival of Disney on Broadway--particularly Julie Taymor's groundbreaking show The Lion King. The show not only proved that so-called children's theater could draw huge family audiences (it has raked in more than $1 billion from its Broadway and worldwide touring companies) but also expanded the vocabulary of the stage, embracing everything from puppetry to African dance. Everywhere in the culture, meanwhile, children's entertainment is crossing over to adult audiences and gaining mainstream cachet, from Harry Potter books to Pixar animation. London...