Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also marks an exciting rejuvenation this season for Broadway--by which we now mean mainly the Broadway musical. Led by The Lion King, Ragtime and half a dozen other sellouts, ticket sales for New Year's week were the highest ever recorded. Attendance so far this season is up 5% over last, and 40% higher than 10 years ago. Rosie O'Donnell plugs Broadway shows regularly on her popular talk show; rock stars like Paul Simon are plunging in for the first time (Simon's musical The Capeman opens...
...winning ticket was worth $2.17 million, which Phyllis expected to be split evenly. But the next day, when Michael, 38, and his wife Jillanne went to claim the purse, there was no mention of Phyllis. That night Michael told his parents that he had bought the winning stub separately from their $40 monthly pool. Sorry, Ma. Phyllis, a sixtyish retiree, then decided to remind her son of what happens when you don't play well with others: she's suing him, claiming breach of an oral contract...
Anthony Boscia, the liquor-store owner who sold the winning ticket and receives a $1,000 bonus from the lottery for his trouble, has absorbed the moral of this story. "I'm taking my family out for a wonderful time," he says, "and that includes my parents...
...what if you decided to get a ticket this morning, to leave yet today...
...Ticket fares like the $99 fare to London Al-Mokarrab had booked lure many students away, and this year, there are more bargains available than usual...