Word: extravaganzas
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...when Peter Sellers succumbed in July 1980 to a massive heart attack, leaving his latest Pink Panther extravaganza only half-filmed, director Blake Edwards knew he'd be taking a big chance trying to salvage the movie. But Edwards went for it. He overhauled the second half of the original script, doing away with Sellers' Inspector Clouseau by having the bumbling detective's plane mysteriously vanish in mid-mission. He also brought in an inquisitive young French reporter; her search for the missing sleuth leads her to a host of Clouseau's friends, foes, colleagues and relatives. The resulting flashbacks...
...EXTRAVAGANZA now playing at Kirkland House is blessed with a lead actor who looks uncannily, definitively Messianic. From the moment Adam Isaacs strolls onstage in his white tunic, smiling and nodding at some 25 adoring followers, any doubts as to the feasibility of staging a gospel-inspired rock opera at a predominantly blow-dried university become moot. The illusion of Deeper Meaning holds. And in a show which draws about a third of its emotional impact from that illusion and another third from the power of an extraordinarily rich score, such a visual bonus is no small gain...
Most people who had sat on the hard concrete bleachers that day probably didn't give much thought to the 79-year old stadium. Not many doubted that it would withstand the extravaganza. But some wondered. And Athletic Director Jack Reardon must have been one of them...
...machine-but for as long as their stamina and luck hold out, they are the American Cats. Big or small, rotund or svelte, white or black or Oriental, a company of graceful felines is preparing to prance and caterwaul on the Winter Garden stage in a 2½-hr. extravaganza of song and dance (with hardly a word of spoken dialogue) that is the most highly touted foreign musical ever to hit Broadway. In the previews, which begin this week, these 30 young show people-and their mentors, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, Director Trevor Nunn and Choregrapher Gillian Lynne-will...
...devoted child of the audiovisual age, the millionaire author still likes to get up in the morning and switch on rock 'n' roll. King, his wife Tabitha and their three children alternate between an airy modern house in a Maine village and a 23-room Victorian extravaganza in Bangor. Wherever he happens to be, King compulsively churns out 1,500 words a day, just as he has done since the late 1960s, when he was an English major at the University of Maine. "I'll always write because that's what I do best," he says...