Word: ziegfeld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University Theatre, Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" and the "Ziegfeld Follies" were playing. A yearlong subscription to The Crimson was $1.50, and a versatile men's suit was $40. Life after the war was prosperous for many...
DIED. DOROTHY MCHUGH, 87, whose career included a stint as a Ziegfeld Follies dancer before reaching its pop-culture apotheosis with the instantly camp cry of "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" in a TV spot for an emergency-alert system; in Philadelphia...
...tiny ice rink. The best variety package is still Jubilee!, now in its 14th year at Bally's. Its huge, handsome sets and gargantuan production numbers (Samson and Delilah, the Sinking of the Titanic, a World War I dogfight)--with a few bites of chaste cheesecake--would make Flo Ziegfeld cheer...
...campy, shameless best, the Broadway Beauty brings to mind Busby Berkeley movies, Radio City Music Hall spectacles, the Ziegfeld Follies and Fourth of July at Disney World. You may be amused, you may be appalled, but you cannot fail to be agape. The one thing this riot of color and noise does not bring to mind is the modern Broadway musical, which can delight in scenery and special effects but is most concerned with evoking emotion and telling a story...
...acquire the last private buildings on the block (since 1990, $185 million has been spent buying up all the others), and officials confirmed that the Walt Disney Co. is all but recruited to renovate and stage live performances in the New Amsterdam Theater, the grand Art Nouveau landmark where Ziegfeld had his Follies. "It is the deal that we all dreamed about," says one of the project's masterminds. "When somebody like ((Disney chairman)) Michael Eisner comes in, everybody follows...