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...were designed to make Broadway forget its troubles, it is Mamma Mia! The frothy musical, built around the songs of the hugely popular (and critically patronized) '70s Swedish rock group Abba, was created to bring happiness wherever it goes--and so far it has. The show has been a sellout in London since it opened there 2 1/2 years ago, and it has broken box-office records almost everywhere else it has played, including Toronto, Los Angeles and Boston. Despite the hard times, Mamma Mia! opened last week on Broadway with a $27 million advance sale, reportedly the second highest...
...world champion Ernest Hoost, a 6-ft. 5-in., 220-lb. Muay Thai kick-boxing expert from Holland, enjoy rock-star status. The sport is also gaining audiences in Europe and in the U.S. A recent event at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas kept Ishii's sellout streak alive, and a new PlayStation game is bound to hook any American kid who just might happen to enjoy animated pummeling...
...American Airlines Center, which opened last week with a sellout concert by the Eagles, is the centerpiece of the 72-acre Victory project, one of the nation's largest and most successful cleanups of a "brownfield"--the Environmental Protection Agency's term for contaminated areas with the potential for reuse. Rising from the ashes of a 100-year-old city dump, a railroad maintenance facility, an aging power plant and a row of abandoned grain silos, the Victory project is a $1 billion development catering to road-weary Dallasites who want to live, work and play downtown...
...ironic that Morpheus should arrive on the scene as Napster takes a couple of sellout steps towards its long-sought legitimacy. Interim CEO Hank Barry was brushed aside for a Bertelsmann executive on Monday, moving the center of power a little further away from Fanning and closer to the music industry. Even though an appeals court overturned a lower court injunction and ruled that Napster can resume trading while it waits for a trial, this new-look Napster will not do so until a planned paid service is in place...
...Pinter's most recent play, Celebration, is paired with The Room at London's Almeida Theatre. A sellout, and the critics love...