Word: versions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prediction. Six years ago, she staged Donizetti's popular Lucia di Lammermoor for New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and her vision of madness and death--the stage was strewn with coffins--drew catcalls from tuxedoed first-nighters expecting something considerably more romantic. In her version of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, presented last fall by the New York City Opera, the two principal male characters were stripped down to skimpy loincloths and chained together, to underline what Zambello believes to be the opera's homosexual subtext. "Cesca is an artist with a strong mind and a point of view...
Many networks--as well as a site on the Web--offered Russians live coverage of the events. But life in St. Petersburg went on as usual. The center of the city is turning into a smaller version of Moscow, with Gucci shops and bodyguards, hotels with London prices and unofficial landmarks of the new order--like the spot on Nevsky Prospekt, the city's most famous shopping street, where a top government official was gunned down last year in a highly professional contract hit. As the funeral proceeded, city streets were busy, shops and offices were open as usual...
...troubled musical that had an abortive tryout 1 1/2 years ago in Washington. Since then, Lloyd Webber has overseen a major revamp of the show: brought in a new director, helped rewrite the book and added half a dozen new songs. "To be frank," he says of the old version, "the work had not been done to get it into theatrical shape...
...nearly two decades, now it's the Americans who have reclaimed the lead. The West End is filled with U.S. imports like Rent and Chicago (and Ragtime and The Lion King haven't even applied for passports yet). The one new British hit of the season is a stage version of that very American pop artifact from the '70s, Saturday Night Fever. The show, adapted by Nan Knighton and directed by Arlene Phillips, reprises the familiar story of the Brooklyn kid who makes it big on the disco floor, adding a dose of Vegas-like pizazz and high-octane choreography...
When I went home to Topeka, Kansas, right after my finals, I was bored crazy. With nothing better to do, I opened up the local newspaper to see what was going on besides high school graduations. I landed on a "Best of Topeka" feature, sort of a version of "Best of Boston...