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Anna Perez was secretary to Barbara Bush and press secretary to U.S. Congressional representative John Miller. Perez currently works as vice president of government relations for the Walt Disney Company...
...boom is being fueled largely by two relatively new corporate players: the Walt Disney Co., which has two shows pulling in the family audience (Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King); and Livent Inc., the Canadian company run by impresario Garth Drabinsky that has produced Ragtime along with such crowd pleasers as Barrymore and the hit revival of Show Boat. Both companies have brought fresh ideas--economic and artistic--to Broadway as well as deep pockets: The Lion King cost a reported $20 million to mount, a Broadway record; Ragtime came in for about half that, but Drabinsky...
...aside a block of VIP seats for each performance of Ragtime; at $125 a pop, high rollers get access to such amenities as a private lounge, free drinks and bathrooms that don't have lines snaking into the orchestra pit. To satisfy the overwhelming demand for Lion King seats, Disney chairman Michael Eisner has suggested starting a second company in the same theater to give extra matinee performances on weekends and nights when the theater is now dark...
...blockbusters do not necessarily squeeze out small productions--which appeal to different audiences and can get some of the spillover from sellout shows. "I don't think we're stomping out competition," says Peter Schneider, head of Disney's theatrical division. "Good product will out." What is indisputable is that Disney and Livent have brought good--maybe great--product to Broadway even as they have helped introduce the fusty old business to the modern world. And for that, the only proper response from a theatergoer is "Bravo...
Kids and parents alike marveled at the computer-generated antics of Buzz Lightyear and his floppy rival Woody. But that was child's play compared with the technological high jinks Pixar is cooking up for its upcoming Disney movies, A Bug's Life (due this fall) and a sequel to Toy Story (1999). Next on the 3-D animation studio's plate are convincingly rendered humans, the first of which appears in an imaginative short called Geri's Game. Director Jan Pinkava used powerful new software tools to create the skin and facial expressions of an old codger battling...