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Former Michigan star Chris Webber's mental breakdown in the 1993 championship game sharply contrasts with Cleaves' performance under fire...
...this happen? Lippa says he discovered the poem in a bookstore in 1995 and saw it as a chance to write "my Cats," referring to the soon-to-close Andrew Lloyd Webber show based on T.S. Eliot's poetry. LaChiusa says he first read the poem even earlier--1994, so there!--though he didn't start to work on it for nearly three years. Lippa's version was the first to be staged, in a workshop production at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut in the summer of 1997. (LaChiusa's had its first reading a few months...
...years Broadway run of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which will close June 25 after 7,397 performances...
Critics grumble that Lloyd Webber might homogenize the West End by filling it entirely with his type of catchy but bland popular musical or even with his own works, but he scoffs at those ideas as both impractical and commercially suicidal. The theaters will still present a wide mix of plays, he says, in keeping with his broad-ranging multimedia strategy. "With control of these high-quality drama houses, think about his ability to hammer out alliances with young playwrights who can produce good plays that also have film potential," says Stephen Bannon, managing director of the investment bank...
KOBE BRYANT, 21, knows recording studios are littered with the gargantuan bones of basketball players who thought they could rap. (Anyone unfamiliar with Shaquille O'Neal's Shaq Diesel or Chris Webber's 2 Much Drama should consult the nearest record store's clearance bin.) Nevertheless, the L.A. Laker and NBA All-Star thinks his upcoming album, Visions, will be different. "If I heard a basketball player rhyming, I'd be suspicious too," says Bryant. "But I think I'll get people's respect as time goes on." Bryant's first single, K.O.B.E.--a duet with fellow musical novice Tyra...