Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, a homage to trains, with lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, is (surprise!) the season's hottest ticket. It is also just about a total bust. For this multimedia combo of Rollerball and The Little Engine That Could, Designer John Napier has ramped and revamped the huge Apollo Victoria Theater, allowing the young cast room to roller-skate through three levels of the audience. But all the amplified sound and whirling energy cannot hide the show's vacuity. The story line is repetitive and inconsequential; Trevor Nunn's staging is an elephantine parody...
...film for the first three weeks of its release and has earned $38 million at the box office so far; Footloose the album, with sales of more than a million, is currently No. 5 on the Billboard charts; and Footloose the single is No. 4. Of such stuff are multimedia successes made...
...Kingsley's misfortune that Gandhi cast him in an unfamiliar role: as multimedia star. In his new one-man show, which opened last week on Broadway, he is portraying a man who helped define the image of the charming, demon-driven actor. The stage is suffused with a gloomy glow-the dressing room for a command performance in hell, crowded with the ghosts of Kean's past. His wife, his mistress, his dead son and his surviving one, the theater managers who wronged him and the leading men he saw as his incompetent rivals, all are evoked...
...Comedian Eddie Murphy has become a multimedia star...
...READ on the jacket sleeve that this book is a "pioneering attempt to present the full spectrum of contemporary American composition." And to achieve this Promethean goal New York Times music critic John Rockwell leads us through the biographies of 20 American "composers"--classical, jazz, experimental, multimedia, environmental, Broadway, rock and musique concrete...