Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't a difficult choice for Coach Dave Peterson to pick Bourbeau, either. Bourbeau had to skip the Olympic Festival, the team's offcial tryout camp, last summer because of an injured shoulder. But, as he had been promised, Bourbeau was granted a private tryout the following week in Lake Placid, and Peterson quickly added the Falmouth native to his roster...
...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 Side Story. Sometimes what is labeled a tryout turns into a bypass...
...London and sold out during an eight-week tryout in Washington, Les Miserables opened on Broadway last week with advance ticket sales of more than $11 million -- the most in U.S. theater history, nearly double the $6.2 million record set by Cats in 1982. The show is already slated to open in 20 more countries: requests have come from the Soviet Union and South Africa, Bulgaria and Japan. Says Producer Cameron Mackintosh, 40, an impresario whose properties include Cats, Little Shop of Horrors and the London smash The Phantom of the Opera: "Les Miserables has the potential...
...Dennis would be a day on the beach at Acapulco." They have two teenage daughters who know a little about neglect. "If a crew member will put this ahead of his religion," Conner says, "his family, his girlfriend, his home, his career, then I'll give him a tryout...
...Danny's irritation Neil did not credit the script as "from an idea by Danny Simon." Last year Neil brought a rewritten, all-female Odd Couple to Broadway. Danny played a role in developing that idea too. But he was fired as the show's director during its tryout tour...