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...great subject of Bayreuth gossip now is, Who will replace Wolfgang? For the time being, no one; he shows that he is still more than capable of running a one-man show. He says the next boss may not be a Wagner at all, but he will probably choose his second wife, Gudrun, 50, formerly a festival secretary. That solution would follow tradition. When the composer died, his wife Cosima succeeded him for 23 years, then handed control to her son Siegfried. After he died in 1930, his widow Winifred continued in his place until after the war, when, publicly...
Willem de Kooning, whom many would call America's greatest living painter, was 43 when he had his first one-man show and today, at 90, with his painting career finished by senility, he has still not had an adequate museum retrospective. The last attempt at such a show was staged at the Whitney Museum in New York City 10 years ago. It was a bust because so many of De Kooning's key paintings from the '40s and '50s were not lent. The show titled "Willem de Kooning Paintings," which opened this month at the National Gallery in Washington...
John D. Downey is the sole proprietor and a "one-man show" who self almost every type of flower...
...Astonishing Self. Through April 17. Acclaimed actor Donal Donnelly portrays George Bernard Shaw in a one-man show. Lyric stage, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston. Call 437-7172 for tickets and more information...
Hayek, 66, was born in Beirut of a Lebanese mother and an American father. The family moved to Switzerland when he was seven. With a degree in mathematics and $3,400 in borrowed money, Hayek started a one-man consulting firm in 1957 that developed a reputation for finding waste and mismanagement in everything from the Swiss army to the state radio. Today Hayek Engineering is a $1 billion business whose clients range from U.S. Steel and Dow Chemical to Krupp, Siemens and the Chinese government...