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...which in turn became a beguiling two-record album. Cast albums, even of such failures as 1981's Merrily We Roll Along, are prized by collectors. Last September the belated complete recording of his 1971 spectacular Follies turned into a pair of sold-out Lincoln Center concerts and a PBS television special. Sunday in the Park will reach PBS next week. Sweeney Todd (1979) has received the ultimate musical-theater accolade: being scheduled by the New York City Opera. Many of Sondheim's shows failed to recoup their investment the first time around. But unlike most songs in the genre...
...programs in stereo, including The Cosby Show, Amazing Stories and The Tonight Show. ABC and CBS have been notably cooler to the new technology. But two ABC series, The Insiders and Fortune Dane, were presented in stereo this season, as was the Grammy Awards on CBS in February. Several PBS series and much cable programming (including MTV) are also offered in stereo...
Originally a novel by John J. Osbourn '67, The Paper Chase was made into a successful film and then into an unsuccessful and short-lived CBS television series. After several years of reruns on PBS, it was picked up by the cable network Showtime...
...certain brash confidence. At 29, Morris is the hottest young choreographer in the country. His Seattle-based troupe of 13 dancers is in heavy demand, and other signs of success are visible: bookings in Europe, commissions from established ballet companies (Boston, the Joffrey), a program on next season's PBS Dance in America series, invitations to pump some life into grand opera productions. (Morris choreographed the Dance of the Seven Veils on alternating sopranos in the current Seattle Opera production of Strauss's Salome...
...phone to resolve their own crisis. "It was like I'd talked to him yesterday," Phil says. They had lunch, got drunk, and within ten months were singing at their reunion concert in London. There was a subsequent record of the concert as well as a companion television special. PBS did a documentary history of the brothers, and the pair released EB '84, an album that brought them smartly up to date. Perhaps because their rift had been so long and so deep, or maybe just because rock exists in a state of perpetual flux, the reunion had a tentative...