Word: mirvishes
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...Ashcroft among them. Then, from 1963 to 1976, it served as the first home of Britain's National Theater. Thereafter it declined into a mere booking hall, just another space where a producer might launch a commercial production. Now Miller and the theater's owners, Toronto Businessman Ed Mirvish, 73, and his son David, 43, are seeking to bring back the glory days of the classics. Their goal: a commercial troupe to rival in quality the two huge subsidized London ensembles, the National and the Royal Shakespeare Company...
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...
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