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Whether it's in theatrical shape now is a critical question, not only for the fading king of the British musical (who just turned 50 and hasn't had a big hit since Phantom of the Opera more than 10 years ago) but also for the British musical in general. Though Brit-produced extravaganzas from Cats to Miss Saigon have dominated the world's musical stages for nearly two decades, now it's the Americans who have reclaimed the lead. The West End is filled with U.S. imports like Rent and Chicago (and Ragtime and The Lion King haven...
Ugly men use them to obscure as much of their faces as possible, hoping to hide their Phantom-like visages. Women use them to augment a ponytail when doing damage control on bad hair days. Whatever the situation, there's bound to be a reason to wear a baseball...
...raised in Guelph, Ont. Her father, a high school drama teacher, and her mother, who ran a dinner theater, divorced when Neve was young. At age 9 she joined the National Ballet School of Canada; at 14 she dropped out of school to join the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera; a few years later she moved to L.A. and was cast in Party of Five. "This new wave of talent is all- consuming in Hollywood right now," says Cathy Konrad, who produced the Scream movies. "Neve has a step up because audiences have been identifying with...
...correspondent Bruce Van Voorst, who has been tracking the deal. "He'll play the game, but if there's no bill he'll simply blame the Republicans." Which explains Clinton's staggering announcement that the settlement's tobacco revenues would be included in the new budget -- thus linking the phantom deal to all sorts of government goodies for voting Americans. "If they don't happen," says Van Voorst, "Well, the Republicans blew it. And, then Clinton can call them the party of Big Tobacco money...
...shows come out. With the apparent end of Andrew Lloyd Webber's string of hits, Wildhorn has taken over as the middlebrow melodist critics love to hate. His soaring ballads are dismissed as bland pop geared for easy-listening radio; his shows are scorned as cut-rate imitations of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. ("The man writes galumphing, dunderheaded musicals that make...everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber seem like great art"--Newsday.) But he is a musical populist and proud of it. "Lyrics can be hard to grasp," he says. "If the music isn't comfortable...