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...counterbalance, the composer tapped the veteran director Hal Prince, 59, who * had contributed so much to the success of Evita. Lloyd Webber composed the role of Christine with his wife Sarah Brightman's crystalline voice and fragile Pre-Raphaelite looks in mind. The trick was casting the Opera Ghost. His choice was British Actor Michael Crawford, 45, whom he had heard sing in the 1979 London show Flowers for Algernon and who had appeared in such films as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Jokers. "The moment I saw him with Sarah at dinner...
...Julie L. Belcove '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Jessica A. Dorman '88 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Melanie R. Williams '91 Features Editors: Andrea E. Monfried '88 Shari Rudavsky '88 (legal!) Sports Editor: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Photo Editor: Steven Findley '91 Business Editor: Willa Berghuis '88 Copy Editor: The Ghost In The Machine
...rueful exchanges among the shades of characters already dead. In the climax, a young woman who has died in childbirth revisits earth on the day of her twelfth birthday, only to find that her mother cannot "see" her. That is, not only is the mother unable to envision the ghost of her daughter's future self but, for all her maternal devotion, she is so caught up in minutiae that she fails to pay meaningful attention to the actual girl who stands yearning for it. That moment underlines why Wilder chose his austere narrative form. It too demands that people...
...Curley's ghost must have had its Irish up last month when Boston's posh Copley Plaza Hotel ordered its maids to turn in their sloppy mops and go back to cleaning bathroom floors by hand. Outraged maids filed a labor grievance and threatened a walkout. Last week, under pressure from the hotel workers and other unions as well as the National Organization for Women, the Copley backed down...
With the judicial odds favoring D'Aubuisson, why did Duarte choose this time to evoke the ghost of Arnulfo Romero? The U.S. had long ago supplied all the essential details to El Salvador, including the gist of Garay's testimony, the whereabouts of Saravia, and D'Aubuisson's alleged complicity. "We've known that almost from Day 1," said a Reagan Administration source. Duarte, he added, "is playing politics. He's had this in his back pocket for a long time...