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...bookstores and grungy B-movie palaces. Now a little stretch of 42nd Street west of Broadway in New York City is the most happening piece of show-biz real estate in the world. On one side of the street is the refurbished New Amsterdam Theater, where Disney's The Lion King, a stage version of Simba's tale that opened to raves in November, is the hottest-selling show in Broadway history. Just across the street, at another rebuilt theater dubbed the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, the eagerly awaited Ragtime has just opened. The musical version...
...also marks an exciting rejuvenation this season for Broadway--by which we now mean mainly the Broadway musical. Led by The Lion King, Ragtime and half a dozen other sellouts, ticket sales for New Year's week were the highest ever recorded. Attendance so far this season is up 5% over last, and 40% higher than 10 years ago. Rosie O'Donnell plugs Broadway shows regularly on her popular talk show; rock stars like Paul Simon are plunging in for the first time (Simon's musical The Capeman opens...
...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...
...Livent has set 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...
...that time, the president assumed control of the editorials, the secretary wrote the "Fact and Rumor" column, and the managing editor was responsible for everything else. Thus, although the managing editor did the lion's share of the work, setting up the paper and making assignments, it was the president who guided the paper's policies, subject to the general consent of the executive board. Henry James, class of 1899 and a former president of The Crimson, wrote this description of a typical day at the paper in the December, 1899, Harvard Graduates' Magazine...