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...tries to attract longer-running shows to its stages. As a result, Nunsense has been playing on its Main Stage for almost a year. The main theater seats 525 people. The other stage, known as Stage II (426-5225) has a seating capacity of 196 and has been showing Shear Madness for an unprecedented nine years. The Charles also houses the Comedy Connection with a seating capacity...
...much admired airline and a state-of-the-art airport were involved. In 1985 a Delta L-1011 crashed on landing at Dallas-Fort Worth, killing 137 people. That mishap, however, occurred during a thunderstorm and was eventually attributed to the severe up- and downdrafts known as wind shear...
With all its blood and dismembered appendages, Sweeney is not for the squeamish. Only slightly easier to stomach is the play's moralistic, class-conscious, intellectual baggage--Sweeney is probably the only musical that doesn't allow its singers to smile. Still Sweeney Todd is worth seeing for the shear power of its performances...
...swirl of speculation quickly surrounded the crash. The day afterward, some witnesses reported having seen flames trailing from one of the plane's two engines. That possibility was discounted when the NTSB announced that the engines revealed no evidence of fire or early disintegration. Wind shear was also deemed a possible culprit. Abrupt wind shifts were responsible for the last major crash of a U.S. carrier, a Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 jet in Dallas on Aug. 2, 1985. In Detroit, Flight 255 had been rerouted to another runway to avoid a gust of wind from a distant thunderstorm...
...Shear Madness...