Word: miller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Executive Editor, Brooke A. Masters '89 of Mather House and New York, New York, Executive Editor, Jeffrey S. Nordhaus '89 of Adams House and New Haven, Connecticut, Executive Editor (Magazine Editor); Mark M. Colodny '89 of Quincy House and Washington, D.C., Senior Editor, Benjamin R. Miller '89 of Lowell House and Ellicott City, Maryland, Senior Editor, Mark T. Brazaitis '89 of North House and Washington, D.C., Sports Editor, Elsa C. Arnett '89 of Dunster House and New York, New York, Deputy Magazine Editor (Politics); Sophia A. van Wingerden '89 of Cabot House and Rapid City, South Dakota...
...Miller's controversial reputation would suggest, they will probably be classics with a twist. He has reset an Italian opera in gangster territory, for example, and reimagined O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night as caustic tragicomedy rather than lugubrious apocalypse. Andromache is the first offering of a seven-play season, of which Miller will direct five. With characteristic confidence in his polymathic perversity, he has assigned himself an absurdist British comedy, N.F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum; a Jacobean tragedy, Bussy D'Ambois; a Leonard Bernstein musical, Candide, which Miller says "will have more flavor...
Technically, the deal between Miller and the Mirvishes is for just one season, which David Mirvish projects may lose as much as $1 million. Says Mirvish: "We are hoping to do what we have over decades of owning the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toronto -- build a subscription audience that trusts us. We see the first year as an investment." Whatever its eventual fate -- and however long the notoriously mercurial Miller stays with it -- the new Old Vic seems likely, on the basis of its inaugural season, to enrich the scene in London and perhaps beyond...
...enslaved queen rules over the city, and her son has been declared the rightful future king of Troy. The fickle, feckless others have been destroyed by their excesses: Pyrrhus murdered, Hermione a suicide, Orestes driven mad. Ultimately the production's shortcomings are not important. Racine, Miller and Set Designer Richard Hudson thrust the audience into a world askew, and the force that has caused the upheaval -- the dizzying, delirious and dangerous power of passion -- has not much changed from the Greek world...
Group Publishers: S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...