Word: successful
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Producers put shows out on the road for three basic reasons: to prepare for Broadway; to capitalize on a Broadway success already attained; and occasionally, when a show's concept and stars are more marketable than its actual merits, to bypass Broadway's fierce competition and legion of reviewers. Steep staging costs have made offerings in the first category, known as tryouts, a vanishing breed. Nowadays pre-Broadway tryouts are usually limited to one city, unless a show has a big-name cast or is a revival of a fondly remembered musical, like the current tours of Cabaret and West...
...Rault. In 1981 he was caught embezzling money from Masonite. With the $166,000 he stole, Rault bought a larger house, built a swimming pool and took his parents on vacations to Disney World and San Francisco. "He flipped out," remembers a former associate. "He wanted the image of success, especially to impress his family...
...past suggests that Capote was in no physical or mental shape to fulfill his ambition. His introduction to Music for Chameleons (1980) refers to debilitating emotional problems and difficulties with alcohol and drugs. Social ostracism also left its mark, as did the strains of professional pride. Capote needed a success to match In Cold Blood, his so-called nonfiction novel published way back...
Encouraged by the success of the excellent Claire, a breezy offshoot of a Key West, Fla., restaurant that opened in New York City in 1982, restaurateurs are playing to the enduring dream of an island paradise that has beguiled such disparate spirits as Gauguin and Gilligan. The idea is to create a Caribbean state of mind, drawing inspiration from Key West to Trinidad, with occasional wide detours to Brazil and Mexico, and stressing decor and drinks. The palette runs to hot pink, orange and turquoise that sparkles even in drinks made with blue curacao -- concoctions that may look suspiciously like...
...could not stop the violence around the mines. After 900 deaths occurred at a mine one year in the early 1970s, the authorities had to shut it down. In 1977 the government decided to grant short-term leases to several private mining companies. That strategy, however, has had little success. The government-sanctioned companies produce only about 20% of Colombia's emerald exports. Guaqueros and smugglers account for the rest...