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Stay turned this season. If the preview holds true, Your Harvard Crimson is a few steps away from the Promised Land...
...head toward the end of one of history's most amazing centuries, we at TIME are embarking on an ambitious project. Its goal is to tell the story of the century, and to preview the coming millennium, by looking at the 100 people who have had the most impact on our world and the way we'll live in the future...
...choice. "I don't think the Julie part is the risk," says Peter Schneider, president of Disney animation and theatrical productions. "Putting The Lion King onstage is the risk." Schneider and Schumacher have both been looking over Taymor's shoulder in Minneapolis, watching rehearsals and consulting with her after preview performances. "She is extremely open to collaboration," says Schneider. Taymor seems comfortable with her corporate kibitzers. "If you really know what you're doing and have a strong concept," she says, "you're much more willing to listen to other people...
...production into stageworthy shape, however, has not been easy. First, just before rehearsals started in Minneapolis, Taymor had to have emergency gallbladder surgery. Then, she faced a host of technical problems, from malfunctioning props to elaborate scene changes that couldn't be made quickly enough. For the first few preview performances, the show was forced to insert a pause just before the big wildebeest stampede to give the crew time to change the set. (Taymor has since inserted a new scene to bridge...
Taymor and the Disney executives admit that tensions were high before the first preview, which was attended by Eisner, on July 8, but they were greatly relieved when the show came off without a major hitch and drew an enthusiastic response from the audience. Theatergoers continue to burst into applause at least half a dozen times each night when they first glimpse Taymor's startling designs. Indeed, though the show has a way to go before it is ready for Broadway (some pruning of its 2-hr. 45-min. length would help), it is an ingenious and sometimes thrilling piece...