Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From its earliest preview last December, this musical with magic found itself riddled with afflictions. Doug Henning, 35, may be America's premier illusionist, number his impish persona in eight TV specials and the longrunning 1974 extravaganza The Magic Show. But there are three things he cannot do onstage: sing, dance and act. To compensate, he cannily plays history's greatest wizard and surrounds himself with kinetic performers...
...Reitman, and the footwork of Choreographer Christopher Chadman was supplemented by Billy Wilson's (Bubbling Brown Sugar). A parade of advisers came backstage to offer cardiopulmonary resuscitation: among them Directors Michael Bennett and Jerome Robbins. They all gave some general advice: Forget about the numbers; "Get on with the magic...
...would be pure illusion to suppose that Merlin is just a genial magic show that can get by on the razzle of its star and the dazzle of its effects. The musical is said to require a weekly gross of $275,000 merely to break even, a statistic that terrifies theater insiders. Still, Henning is one of Broadway's certified miracle workers. With a se ries of pans, The Magic Show ran 4? years. He could do it yet again. If he does, it will be the neatest trick of his brief but astonishing career. ?By Stefan Kanfer
Click, click, click. Let your magic channel selector take you on a ramble through the satellite night. Three basketball games fill the sports stations: one pro, one college, one high school. Cable News Network is airing its 30-min. business report. With Mick Jagger and Joan Jett setting the tempo, MTV rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young...
More metaphor than mythology, the Goddess is vital to Graves' poetry and much more. "The political and social confusion of the last 3,000 years," he once told a visitor, "has been entirely due to man's revolt against woman as a priestess of the natural magic, and his defeat of wisdom by the use of intellect...