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...truth is that a significant sector of the population laps up this dreck. When I was dragged to see "Phantom of the Opera" a while back in L.A., I met someone who had seen it more that 100 times. Lest I imagine that she was some lone freak, she informed me that she logged on nightly to an Internet bulletin board to share her impressions of that evening's performance with hundreds of fellow enthusiasts...
...they made 'em like they used to. To me, the Broadway opening last week of a revival of Carousel prompts the thought: Thank God they don't. I'd far rather see Miss Saigon for a fifth time, or Les Miserables for a ninth or even return to The Phantom of the Opera than ever again sit through the longueurs of Carousel, however pretty its candy-box score...
...girl's disposal, her entourage is a solicitous group that includes her lawyer father and chemist mother, their Serbo-Croatian translator, a publicist and a representative from Zlata's French publisher, whose apparent purpose is to help make the Filipovics' stay more enjoyable by suggesting they go see The Phantom of the Opera or -- less likely -- Schindler's List...
...century devoted to minimalism in every area of the arts -- and lately to downsizing in every area of commerce -- producers and performers are increasingly taking that definition literally. Broadway box office is dominated by maximalist musicals known to cynics as the helicopter show (Miss Saigon), the chandelier show (The Phantom of the Opera), the barricades show (Les Miserables) and the zoo story (Cats). But occasionally on Broadway, and incessantly off it, this is also a heyday of the one-person show...
...black anti-Semitism is not just a fear of the creeping acceptability of hate that creates holocausts -- a legitimate fear we all should have. But the recent reaction to the demagoguery of Minister Louis Farrakhan is part of a larger, very American fear of black hate. This is a phantom dreamed up by people who knew what slavery ought to have created long before Nat Turner struck out with his heartless blade. Black hate, though, is only a new wrinkle in the increasingly negative portrayal of blacks as a whole. Since the Reagan Administration's rollback of civil rights, African...