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George S. Panton Jr. has traveled to Washington from Florida in order to spend a couple of hours in this milieu. As founder and president of Extreme Response, a small company that manufactures biologically resistant aquatic rescue equipment, he is trying to claim the niche market that many of the evening’s guests represent...
...originally came from an arts background, and I thought before I came to Yale I’d always have a dual career as an experimental filmmaker as well as a theoretician, as it were,” Rodowick said. “I enjoy working in a milieu with such a high degree of creativity here...
...which makes Bombay Dreams a big risk for Broadway: a $14 million musical with no stars, a score by a composer famous in most of the world (see box, below) but not in the U.S., and a story set in the Bollywood milieu unknown to Broadway's conservative audience. Producer Andrew Lloyd Webber hired writer Thomas Meehan (The Producers, Hairspray) to cut a lot of in-jokes, pump up the mother love--domesticate the Bollywood beast. Will the transplant work? The show has a $6 million advance; and at a preview last week, the audience, perhaps 25% South Asian, seemed...
...Bombay Dreams needs to fill only 14,000 seats a week. How do you get millions to see an Indian movie? For a true crossover, you need a movie that just happens to be Indian, that pours a familiar tale into an Indian milieu. That's Marigold, the story of an American starlet, stranded in India, who works in a Bombay movie to get airfare home and falls for her Indian leading man. Bollywood is not the genre here; it's just the backdrop for a fish-out-of-water plot. Says Steve Gilula of Fox Searchlight, which distributed...
...Webber is taking a little risk: a $14 million musical with unknown actors, an unfamiliar foreign milieu and a who-he? composer. Still, anyone with half an ear will hear the most vibrant, varied new score in ages. Audiences will walk out of Bombay Dreams humming Rahman's songs and singing his praises. If music is the crucial part of a musical, then Rahman's genius will ensure that Bollywood conquers Broadway...