Word: stagehand
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...Kiss Me, Kate, but the Broadway revival was another show a-closin' in the days that followed Sept. 11. Even after the unions agreed to a 25% pay cut to keep ailing Broadway shows alive, Kate's producers still couldn't see a way to continue. Then a stagehand came up with a hey-kids-let's-save-the-show idea: if the cast and crew would voluntarily give up another 25% of their pay for four weeks and use the money to buy tickets for fire fighters and other rescue workers, the show could stay afloat...
...York Daily News, working on a tip from a psychiatrist, suggested that the assailant was William Tager, a disturbed man who believed the media were beaming messages at him. If so, Rather has reason to be thankful. Tager is in prison for a 1994 shooting of an NBC stagehand...
...whenever I was onstage with ((Tallulah Bankhead)) and the moment approached when I was supposed to kiss her, I couldn't bear it. For some reason, she had a cool mouth and her tongue was especially cold ... I asked a stagehand to buy me a bottle of mouthwash, and after each time I had to kiss her I went offstage and took a swig...
They needn't have fretted about money. Millennium has played to 98% of capacity and repaid a third of its investment. And as for the supposedly easy part, mounting the second half? One $2 million nightmare later, after daily rewrites, stagehand mania, 49 foregone performances (to the occasional rage of ticketholders who traveled from as far as Maine) and cuts of nearly an hour once Perestroika was already in previews, the most awaited -- and beleaguered -- dramatic event of the Broadway season officially opened last week. If less profound than it pretends to be and a bit repetitively in love with...
...ends with Saddam's bright idea. Even by the middling standards of pop novelists, Archer's prose is plodding and mechanical. Scenery creaks as the Washington set is wheeled out of the way and the Paris or Baghdad set is trundled in from the wings. Now and then a stagehand is visible. Characters speak lines (it seems to the reader) without force or emphasis, as if reading from scripts at a play's first run-through...