Word: minskoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steven Minskoff, 28, a Manhattan real estate executive and a card-carrying member of the TV generation, thought he had seen and heard it all, from Moonlighting on a 35-in. screen to MTV in surround-sound stereo. Then he saw a store demonstration of Panasonic's new "picture in picture" VCR system, which lets viewers watch two or more programs on the same TV screen. As a salesman tapped on a remote control, new stations began appearing, one at a time, until the screen was filled with nine equal-size panels, each showing a different channel. "My mouth dropped...
...Minskoff is not alone. Anyone who has shopped for a TV or VCR this season knows that television is going through some dramatic changes. The immediate effect is a flood of models endowed with high-tech conveniences, enormous screens and dazzling special effects. Waiting in the wings is a new generation of TV sets that are ready, once economic and political hurdles have been surmounted, to deliver images comparable in quality to those of a wide-screen motion picture. Says William Glenn, director of video research at the New York Institute of Technology: "This is the most exciting period...
...become established until the '60s, gaining momentum with the success of two electronically hyped rock musicals, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. Today no musical would open without a soundman ringing the decibels. The Pirates of Penzance has 42 microphones scattered around the stage in Manhattan's huge Minskoff Theater. The sound system of Dreamgirls is so complicated that when Soundman Otts Munderloh sits down at his control console, he looks as if he could be managing the landing of a space shuttle from the Houston Space Center. Costs have gone up with the voltage. In 1964, Fiddler...
...full impact of Robbins' inspiration is visible at Broadway's Minskoff Theater, because the choreographer decided to duplicate West Side's original staging himself. It is the first time he has worked on Broadway since Fiddler on the Roof in 1964. The intervening years have been well spent: as a fellow ballet master with George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet, he has added more than 30 works to that company's repertory. This winter, at N.Y.C.B., Robbins also revived Fancy Free, the ground-breaking ballet that first brought him fame in 1944. The story...
...much so that one cannot experience a thoroughly enchanting evening in the theater. The current production of West Side Story at Broadway's Minskoff Theater surely qualifies as that. The story, if anyone needs to be told, closely parallels Romeo and Juliet. The warring feudal factions of the Montagues and the Capulets become turf gangs, the Jets (whites) and the Sharks (Puerto Ricans...