Word: salvador
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There were problems onstage too, which became apparent when the show started preview performances in early December. Its story of Salvador Agron--a Puerto Rican teenager convicted of killing two white youths in a Hell's Kitchen playground in 1959--was confused and uninvolving; the staging lacked energy; and there was surprisingly little dancing for a show directed by an acclaimed choreographer, Mark Morris. Last month the producers enticed veteran director Jerry Zaks (the Tony Award-winning revival of Guys and Dolls) to take over as show doctor. He in turn brought in a new choreographer, Joey McKneely. That left...
...view of our community," says Melody Capote, executive director of the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York City. The show has even spawned a counterplay: Fred Newman, a playwright and director who was once Agron's therapist, has written and staged an off-Broadway drama on the same subject, Salvador (Fictional Conversations); among its characters is one Paul Simon...
...death of Chilean leader Salvador Allende, the rise of the Sandanistas in Nicaragua, the future of Spain after Franco and the urgency of divestment from South Africa were recurring subjects of coverage...
Walcott's daily life is hectic. As the co-writer of the book and lyrics for Paul Simon's long-awaited musical The Capeman, he has a Broadway opening this month--an unusually suspenseful opening. The Capeman, which tells the story of Salvador Agron, a Puerto Rican teen who killed two white youths in a Manhattan playground in 1959, has been plagued by a drumbeat of doomsaying in the New York media, last-minute changes and a postponed opening date. The Nobel curse may be chasing Walcott, but his productivity seems unaffected. His most recent book of poetry, The Bounty...
...Ping-pong diplomacy with China is a more encouraging precedent, perhaps, than the 1969 World Cup qualifying rounds, when El Salvador defeated Honduras ? and sparked a two-week war between the countries...