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...pyramid wasn't the only thing not working in Atlanta. Shortly after the run was finished, Disney's theatrical honchos fired the director, choreographer and design team and set out to do a major retooling. After two big Broadway successes, the entertainment giant seemed on the verge of its first stage pratfall. Not everybody on the Great White Way was prepared to shed tears...
...fall of 1998, all anyone wanted to talk about was the pyramid. It was a giant motorized contraption that dominated the stage during the Atlanta pre-Broadway tryout of Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, Disney's musical retelling of the tale of ancient Egypt that was the basis for Verdi's famous opera. The pyramid opened, it closed, it transformed itself into different sets. It seemed a suitably dazzling follow-up to Julie Taymor's innovative production of The Lion King, Disney's Broadway hit. The trouble was it didn't work, at least not very often. "Every time...
...retailer to sell European clothing, closed its doors more than a decade a go - its site is now occupied by the gaudy Trump Tower and a Nike emporium - and the final store of the chain hadn't turned a profit in 10 years. On Monday, its current owner, Pyramid, finally decided to boot the retailer from a mall the company owns. Taking over the space: a specialty store...
...firm is best known for subdued historical renovations, but he and partner Todd Schliemann conceived the Rose Center as a brisk geometric eruption, like I.M. Pei's Louvre pyramid, that shakes up the buildings around them. The old Hayden Planetarium, demolished to make way for the Rose, had blended all too well with the museum's flavorless north end. Polshek's forms, by contrast, operate on our deepest fantasies about the order of the universe. His sphere is covered with steel panels that inscribe it with meridians and latitude lines, so it stands in easily for the earth...
...According to Cousin, he, Giampaolo and Platt built the obelisk, Giampaolo and Platt made the pyramid, Platt focused on the Sphinx's nails, Morris constructed its face and Withrow completed its tail...