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...screen. A poignant scene of Cesar and Nestor in a Times Square photo booth was influenced by Andy Warhol; it replicates a visit Glimcher and his family made to have their snaps taken for a Warhol portrait. Close watchers of The Mambo Kings will also discern the phantom signatures of a few revered auteurs. "I like Bob Fosse's films very much," Glimcher says. "So the strip joint in my film and the close-up of a decrepit stripper's knee give off echoes of Sweet Charity. Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is a film that means the world...
GRANDCHILD OF KINGS. Hal Prince proved himself a genius of high-gloss staging in such musical extravaganzas as Cabaret and The Phantom of the Opera. Now his awesome talents, and a cast of 27, are employed in an exuberant, emotionally rich yet intimate off-Broadway retelling of Sean O'Casey's Dublin memoirs...
...tournament was the final event in a two-day dance festival that opened Friday night with a benefit waltz. The benefit dance featured a "Phantom of the Opera" presentation headlined by entertainers Marguerite M. Hanlon '19-'20 and John Ford...
...Cascade International has a far more embarrassing problem: a missing chairman. The Florida-based retailer's founder and chief executive, Victor Incendy, disappeared last week, two days before a scheduled meeting at which he had promised to reply to accusations that his clothes-and-cosmetics empire was built on phantom stores and phony figures. The episode is a bizarre end to the spectacular seven-year rise of Cascade, which had regularly reported annual sales gains of 40% or more from a chain of stores with such names as Boutiques Allison and Fran's Fashions...
...only slowdown in London comes in musicals. The handful of creators who, in various permutations, have brought forth Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and the like have nothing new or imminent. Still, an irresistibly energetic and shamelessly folksy overgrown cabaret show, Five Guys Named Moe, featuring jazz of the 1930s and '40s and nonstop dancing by an all-black cast, has taken London by storm. It is headed for Broadway next April, complete with group singing of calypso bebop and a whole-audience conga line at intermission...