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...Wicked. They commissioned an audience survey that found the demographic breakdown of people who see Wicked is in line with that of most Broadway shows: more of its audience is over 35 than under 35. "Yes, girls come. They're enthusiastic. They're at the stage door," says David Stone, one of the show's producers. "But they're not all that's coming...
...niche audiences don't make hits. Yet the influx of young theatergoers to shows like Wicked is a trend producers can't afford to ignore. "We've talked about how we lost a generation who didn't think it was cool to go to the theater," says Wicked's Stone. "A lot of us have started to get that audience back. Younger people are coming back to the theater--and yet older people aren't leaving...
...That poverty may be ubiquitous, but so is the energy. Teeming, corrugated-iron slums surround decaying Art Deco mansions. Lush bougainvilleas peek from behind high stone walls trimmed with barbed wire. Chapels hear confession in the middle of decadent shopping malls, and hand-painted billboards advertising movies like Brazen Women overlook vendors touting T-shirts that read JESUS OF NAZARETH. At stoplights, peddlers tap on your window proffering newspapers and Marlboro Reds, while children wave garish feather dusters and delicate lace handkerchiefs. And wherever you go, there is music, in the endless strips of "videoke" lounges, pouring forth from bars...
...then began her collegiate coaching career with Harvard under head coach Katey Stone. During Asano’s stint as an assistant, the Crimson made three straight appearances in the NCAA Frozen Four finals from...
...noon, thousands had gathered to write messages of love and remembrance on easels and light candles in the chapel. But even amid public acts of mourning, stoicism reigned. Rob Yanskie, a childhood friend of Caitlin Millar Hammaren, who was killed in Norris Hall, bent down to touch a stone to be dedicated in her name, one of 32 arranged in a half-circle on the grass. He had driven from New York with another of Hammaren's friends to say goodbye. They did not weep. "Basically we've decided to celebrate her life instead of mourning," he said...