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...wrote in the 1930s for the amusement of the children of his relatives and friends; and music by Lloyd Webber, currently the most successful composer for Broadway and the West End (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). In London, Cats has been a sold-out smash since it opened in May 1981. But the New York version "will not be a clone of the other," says Producer Cameron Mackintosh. Four main characters have been cut and others merged. Four songs have undergone major rewrites. Other numbers have been stretched or tightened "to take advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Making the Cats Meow | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...folks have moved altogether from the King's Road homestead, according to London directory assistance. CBS has no specific time slot yet for the movie, but I'm sure it's going to be a smash. What...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Pictures of Catherine | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...hero's wife he whistles the first bars from Johann Strauss's giddy Voices of Spring waltz. All this is enough to make even the mildest of men, Music Teacher Andy Norris (Perry King), reeeally mad, mad enough to set one of the gang members aflame, smash a second with a tire iron and drive a buzz saw through the spine of a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: School Daze | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...sharp pains in her head, the attacks of near madness that (we know) augur her suicide. "And then all this incandescence led to the galloping horses in my heart the night before last," she writes after an overexertion. "I lay in bed reasoning that I could not come smash. Death I defy you, etc. But it was a terrific effort, holding on to the reins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hooked | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Some U.S. officials fear that even unofficial talk of a U.S.-sponsored deal with the P.L.O. may provoke Israel into a final assault on Beirut, to smash the organization once and for all. These officials insist that the U.S. is concentrating its efforts on mediating a P.L.O. evacuation of Beirut, leaving the guerrilla group's long-range status to be negotiated later. The two issues, however, are not easy to separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opportunity and Peril | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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