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Eight performances a week, lessons, and recording sessions leave little free time. But the cast managed to squeeze in a Sunday-evening trip to Staten Island for a birthday party at the math teacher's home. On the ferry, amid the hubbub, Dumisani Dlamini, who plays Crocodile, a high-stepping character in the play, was subdued. A striking figure with a Mohawk hairstyle and tribal scars on his sculptured cheekbones, he gazed off into the mist. "My mother passed in March," he confided softly. "Since then, life has not been the same. I could not go back to South Africa...
...show, which opened last week amid a hubbub of publicity, blends snob appeal with raw marquee value. The playwright, David Mamet, won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his previous Broadway effort, Glengarry Glen Ross, and has since become a hot film writer (The Untouchables) and director (House of Games). The shy but surprising secretary is played by Rock Star Madonna (Material Girl, Like a Virgin), whose program biography cites "13 consecutive top five recordings, bettered only by Elvis and the Beatles." While reviewers seemed transfixed by the question "Can she act?" -- most said no -- audiences seemed not to care. Advance...
...price tag that has stoked public and official outrage. This week the New York State Assembly is expected to pass a measure that would require exhibitors to print admission prices in all newspaper ads and thus encourage theater owners to keep their costs down. Drabinsky is unmoved by the hubbub. The alternative to the $7 ducat, he says, is "to continue to expose New Yorkers to filthy, rat-infested environments. We don't intend to do that...
...hubbub and the amber light of a crowded night spot, Don Carlson moves smoothly through the crowd. He is shirtless and in stocking feet, and he weighs 330 lbs., not counting the tiny gold angel wings between his shoulder blades. ("You have to say how tall he is," his fiancee urgently advises, "or people will think he's this little round guy.") So, all right, he is built like an N.F.L. tackle, stands just shy of six feet tall, and is more graceful than any man in heart-shaped pasties and a 48-in. diaper has a right...
Amid the growing U.S. hubbub about acquisitive foreigners, a fact worth remembering is the importance of America's own trillion-dollar foreign holdings abroad. Any crimping of foreign investment in the U.S. would invite similar measures against American investors elsewhere -- the equivalent, that is, of trade protectionism. Ironically enough, overseas worries about rising American protectionism toward imports is a prime reason for many foreign manufacturers' desire to buy physically into the U.S. market...