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...director's vision, and part of it is common sense. Despite extensive alterations in sets and & costumes, it will arrive on Broadway having cost just $3 million, vs. $5 million for Guys and Dolls (not to mention almost $10 million for the costliest new musical ever, Miss Saigon). Even so, it is not yet in profit, and Broadway is a more expensive environment, with higher union costs and fewer seats in the theater. According to Barry Weissler, while the Guys and Dolls team put together a business plan based on a five-year run, "historically, no revival runs more than...
...October 1963, John F. Kennedy had to decide what to do about the war in Vietnam and, most urgently, whether to back a military coup in Saigon. Kennedy was, writes Richard Reeves, "quietly desperate about the contradictions and misinformation swirling around him. Perhaps half of what he was being told was wrong, but he did not know which half." As he had done before, he dispatched personal envoys -- this time Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor -- to size up the situation...
...Somalia. There is, of course, the big dark ghost of Vietnam, that formative evil myth of Clinton's generation. That war, like the Somalia conflict, was dominated by images injected into the American psyche -- the Viet Cong in a plaid shirt being shot in the head point-blank by Saigon's police chief during the Tet offensive, for example. The experience of Vietnam issues its warnings ("quagmire" and so on), but strangely, Bill Clinton the old war resister last week used much the same rhetoric of steadfastness and honor that Lyndon Johnson used when explaining another escalation in Vietnam...
Recent Developments in Vietnamese Law. A brown-bag lunch with Nguyen Ngoc Bich '73, lawyer, Saigon, Vietnam. Pound Hall, 419, 12:30 p.m. Talk begins...
...Miss Saigon. Through Oct. 9. A retelling of Madame Butterfly set in Vietnam. Wang Center, Boston. $15-$60. Call 931-9393 for more information...