Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Syracuse is coming off a stunning upset of Princeton last week. With two victories this week and a win over Princeton next Wednesday, the Crimson are almosat guaranteed the ticket to Austin, Tex. for the NCAA Championships...
...Chicago, Andy Frain Services, a supplier of ushers and ticket takers for concert halls and sports arenas like Comiskey Park, is faced with new recruiting headaches. Says Operations Director James Wronski: "The bonus of * seeing a ball game or hearing a concert used to be enough to attract the workers we needed. We used to sign up half the kids we solicited for jobs. Now it's below...
...island's 154 inhabitants--mostly Eskimos --turned out to see Weymouth's return. Asked if he was glad to be back in the U.S., the Wanderer replied, "No. Sorry." And what did he plan to do now? "Keep on walking." Weymouth's mother had paid for an airline ticket for her son to return to San Francisco, but at Anchorage airport, he traded it in for a ticket to Seattle...
...settled with relentlessly cheerful domestic comedies. Almost invariably these plays were set in some showcase living room. As soon as the curtain went up, audiences applauded the unassertive furniture, as if in affirmation of their own good taste. That kind of play is all but dead, killed by high ticket prices that prompt theatergoers to demand something special, and by the genre's own dishonesty. When a TV sitcom resolves an impossible problem in half an hour, viewers know that more trouble will crop up next week. In the theatrical equivalent, pain is glibly and permanently cured by the final...
...staged ten consecutive hits, from 1955's Pajama Game to 1978's Dancin'. Since Gower Champion's death in 1980 and Harold Prince's semiretirement after the 1985 fiasco Grind, Fosse has stood alone in his capacity to make movement seem magic. On the strength of his name, ticket buyers gave Big Deal a $1.5 million advance. The Shubert Organization invested $1.1 million co-producing the spectacle and an additional $7.5 million renovating its showcase, the Broadway Theater. With one more musical scheduled before the season ends May 1--Fosse's own revival of his 1966 hit Sweet Charity, starring...