Word: weidman
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Still, getting to the top and staying there is not, so to speak, for pantywaists. U.S. fashion is a $12 billion cottage industry; in the past two years, more than two dozen major U.S. garment manufacturers have folded. The rag trade is still much as Jerome Weidman pictured it in his 1937 novel I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Conspiracy, espionage and piracy are all part of the game. Even before a top designer comes out with a hot new look, his rivals are apt to be running off Chinese copies that will retail for perhaps half the price...
PACIFIC OVERTURES Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book by JOHN WEIDMAN Scenic Design by BORIS ARONSON...
...idea of doing the show started when John Weidman [scriptwriter] came to me about three years ago and suggested a realistic production of Perry's visit to Japan, and I said that same day, "Let's do it as Kabuki." It was an idea about a period of history which had consumed him when he was a student here at Harvard. Apparently I said that I wasn't interested in realistic theater, but that it could be fascinating if we'd do it from the point of view of a Japanese playwright utilizing the Kabuki style. We did not think...
Died. Charles Weidman, 73, pioneer of American modern dance; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Like Choreographer-Dancers Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, Weidman studied at the famed Denishawn School in Los Angeles, leaving to found his own company with Humphrey in 1929. Seeking to choreograph the American scene, Weidman created such works as Lynch Town, a depiction of mob violence, and Fables for Our Time, based on a series of James Thurber's stories. A dedicated teacher, he numbered among his pupils José Limón and Choreographer Bob Fosse (Cabaret, Chicago...
...Fourth Street East, Weidman...