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...Boheme, sung in a flip, funny new English version by Lyricist David Spencer, is no Pirates-sized smash, but its opening night last week, in Papp's tiny Anspacher Theater, was a modest, almost bashful, success. This is petit opera, not grand, but there is a clear gain in warmth and intimacy at the level of drama. The singers use body mikes instead of heroic rib cages and Pavarottal diaphragms, but they are young and good-looking, and they have no trouble seeming appropriately broke and love-sopped (nor in delivering Spencer's sometimes jarring lines...
Eliot would hate Tom and Viv, an acerbic dramatization of his first marriage that played in London earlier this year and is to open in New York City in January. On the other hand, he might well love Cats, a smash musical hit on both sides of the Atlantic, which uses as its libretto his Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1936). For while Eliot was horrified by the prospect of invasions of his privacy, he also longed for the popular acclaim that not even his most successful plays achieved. He was always at war with himself...
Consider: ZTT, the parent company of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, has sold almost 10 million pieces of FGTH vinyl. Relax, the first smash Frankie single, released just over a year ago, is now the fourth-bestselling record in British history, a banned by the BBC did much to ensure. Two Tribes, the follow-up to Relax, was a scornful antiwar song that sailed straight to No. 1 in the first week of its release. Frankie has now sold more records more quickly than any other group since the Beatles. "We're the image of England 1984," says Holly Johnson...
...Kind was kind to the Eliot squad, allowing a pair of defensive tackles to smash through the line and deflect a pass just as it left his hands...
After the game on Saturday, band members and alumni will join together for a "big smash banquet," said O'Brien. One of the speakers at the banquet will be Alice Tondel, "The Band's Mom," he added...