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...several individual teams) are prospering. Before the strike, attendance was running a little ahead of the record 70 million who went to games in 1993. Following the opening of Baltimore's fabled Camden Yards in 1992, new baseball-only parks -- combining classic ballyard architecture with modern amenities -- have brought sellout crowds to the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers...
...cult, then a performance of The Ring of the Nibelung is that religion's ultimate rite: a fervent emotional and aesthetic observance. Any opera house that is able to produce the Ring cycle -- four long, mythic music dramas, based on old Norse and German sagas -- is assured of a sellout. Audiences travel across continents to submit themselves to the Ring's thrilling embrace. Among Wagner's many other theatrical gifts was his ability to build a climax at the end of every act, so that the audience is continually swept into a musical catharsis. Movie scores -- like those by John...
...Lewis has long had a love-hate relationship with theater. And these days, you can hold the love. He says he is infuriated at the traditional notion "that film is the Faustian sellout. I personally think there are works in cinema history which have as much to say to us as any great piece of theater. It's never been an overriding ambition of mine to become what they call in Britain a classical actor. It's been a number of people's ambition on my behalf -- but that's just because of my nose. I was given a nose...
...founded the White Oak Dance Project, a small company of experienced dancers -- the youngest current member is 31, the oldest is Baryshnikov, now 46 -- to tour with a variety of modern works. Both the troupe and its honcho have thrived. In 90 cities, it has almost always been a sellout. But until last week, the itinerary had never included New York City...
Last year's Songstreet Bluegrass and Folk Festival was a turnaway sellout. With local newgrass star Northern Lights, folk-pop icon Jonathon Edwards and old-time big name bluegrass great The Seldom Scene all playing, the show offered local bluegrass fanatics a night of inspiring music...