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...theater world last week honored the team's legacy in a memorial for Lerner, who died of lung cancer on June 14 at age 67. Some 1,500 people gathered at Broadway's Shubert Theater for an 80-minute service of anecdotes, reminiscences and, above all, songs. John Cullum reprised his title number from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). Meg Bussert and Martin Vidnovic, stars of a 1980 Broadway revival of Brigadoon, performed Almost Like Being in Love. Julie Andrews sang Lerner's favorite non-Lerner showstopper, If Love Were All, from Noel Coward's Bitter...
When the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby shifted from London to Broadway in September 1981, theatergoers gasped at the record-setting $100 ticket price and bottom-numbing 8 1/2-hr. length. Co-Producer Bernard Jacobs of the Shubert Organization described seeing both halves in one day as "participating with the actors in a survival experience." Nonetheless, Nickleby's 14-week run became a sellout, playing to almost 55,000 people and leaving countless others feeling they had missed a triumph never to be repeated...
...Dancin'. Since Gower Champion's death in 1980 and Harold Prince's semiretirement after the 1985 fiasco Grind, Fosse has stood alone in his capacity to make movement seem magic. On the strength of his name, ticket buyers gave Big Deal a $1.5 million advance. The Shubert Organization invested $1.1 million co-producing the spectacle and an additional $7.5 million renovating its showcase, the Broadway Theater. With one more musical scheduled before the season ends May 1--Fosse's own revival of his 1966 hit Sweet Charity, starring Debbie Allen--Big Deal looked like everybody's best prospect...
...Britain for four weeks, and the insinuating disco rap One Night in Bangkok is a Top Five smash in half a dozen European countries. Now Chess is readying to blitz America. Two versions of Bangkok have cracked the Top Ten of the U.S. record charts. Next year the omnipotent Shubert Organization is expected to bring the show to Broadway...
...Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with sophistication and hummable tunes. The Shubert Organization's Bernard Jacobs, a man not easily given to rapture, says, "Very few scores prior to production have excited me as much as this one. None, in fact, since My Fair Lady...