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Financially, the books of Broadway musicals cannot afford to be irresponsible. Soaring overhead costs have shot the tab for a new musical up to a minimum of $300,000, compared to $180,000 for Kiss Me, Kate in 1948. Since it takes a solid run of some six months in...
Competing with these hits are the works of other theater giants. A group of young players called the Shakespear-wrights, now in their third season, are staging a sprightly version of Twelfth Night. Two other 17th century comedies are playing to packed houses: Ben Jonson's bawdy Volpone and...
The Louisville Orchestra's brave project for commissioning contemporary music, backed by a $500,000 Rockefeller grant, is in trouble. Its quota - 40-odd new works played and recorded every year-has faded to a mere seven this season. Reason: only 1,021 of the planned 6,000 record...
The famed Edinburgh Festival was bottom-heavy with big-name performers -the Royal Philharmonic and Boston Symphony orchestras, the Hamburg State Opera and Sadler's Wells Ballet-as well as big-name composers-Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Mozart. But hidden in a corner of the old city, not officially part...
Subpatron of the Arts. Tambimuttu (Tambi to intimates), born in Ceylon, educated at a Roman Catholic college, is no stranger to the West. Tambi settled in London in 1937 at the age of 21, and within two years launched Poetry London on a ?5 shoestring. The magazine went broke on...