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...original Broadway production was staged in Bob Fosse's usual extravagant style, but the production here remains wisely small-scaled After a rather ragged opening, Betsy King's choreography and Brian Sands' staging work pretty smoothly within the space limitations of Dunster House's dining hall--obviously not the Shubert Theater...
ALTHOUGH USUALLY striking, the musical's extravagant production occasionally works to its disadvantage. More than once, the slides appear at the wrong time, and the film's projector din seems better suited for a driver's education classroom than a Shubert theater. Because of so many microphones, whenever the high-stepping military chorus marches downstage the theater echoes unpleasantly. Even more disconcerting is the mikes' tendency to make songs should like a cast album on a stereo, further distancing the audience. "All our subtleties are gone," star Altay said after a show...
...their second week of rehearsal, the chosen Shubert Alley cats are getting down to business: learning to feel feline. Says Steven Gelfer, 33, one of eight acrobat-dancers in the troupe: "We spent hours on our hands and knees-moving about, resting, cleaning ourselves. Now we have to take what we learned from being on all fours and transfer it to two legs. Just when we were getting comfortable on our knees!" Ken Page, 28, who will play the patriarchal Old Deuteronomy, reports that "Trevor has won our trust, and we've opened...
Evita earned $27 million during its two-year run at the Shubert; Peter Pan, which plays in a former movie house, the Pantages, made $482,706, a local record, in the week ending Jan. 3; the Wilshire has just reopened after refurbishing with A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. Yet producers of smaller plays, some of them by California playwrights, occasionally find it harder to locate theaters than audiences. William Bushnell, producing director of the L.A. Actors Theater, had no trouble filling his 174-seat house with Frank South's Two by South. But when he tried...
...speaking, tickets do not exist. Even for the insider's insider, there are no strings left to be pulled. At one recent New York City-area funeral, a mourner's first question about the deceased was "What about her Nicholas Nickleby ticket?" Bernard Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization and one of the co-producers who footed the $4.4 million cost of importing the show from London (the others: Gerald Schoenfeld, Elizabeth McCann, Nelle Nugent and James Nederlander), estimates that it "lost $495,000 in the first four weeks, but right now it looks as if it will...