Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRIVATES ON PARADE. War is hell, and so are high heels, as British forces in Malaysia learn while staging musicals in a campy off-Broadway delight...
INTO THE WOODS. Although Stephen Sondheim's richest, deepest Broadway show is ending its run, the work thrives in a fine national touring version...
...John, 35, and Gregg, 26, are his business partners. John says his father taught him to do his homework, then "trust your gut." Sometimes the big man means it literally. When Davis spotted a good investment in the Carnegie Deli, the venerable Manhattan restaurant featured in Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, the financier struck a deal to open a Hollywood branch. The glitzy grand-opening party last month featured a 3-ft. plastic matzo ball being lowered into a vat of simulated chicken soup. Best of all, Davis can now order his favorite pastrami sandwiches at poolside...
...knew nothing about creating plays. Undaunted, Hwang succeeded beyond an undergraduate's wildest fantasy with his next try, F.O.B., a reflection on the immigrant experience. Just over a year after the show was staged in his college dorm, it was performed at New York City's pre-eminent off-Broadway showcase, Joseph Papp's Public Theater. That 1980 triumph and the six modestly successful plays that followed led to foundation grants, movie and TV script deals and enough theater productions to enable Hwang to shuttle between New York City and Los Angeles while supporting himself entirely by writing...
...Butterfly reached Broadway in March 1988, where it won the Tony Award as best play of the season, and has grossed $17 million so far. The show has also been mounted in London, where Anthony Hopkins is playing the character based on Boursicot, and in Buenos Aires and Hamburg. Remarkably for a nonmusical, it has been booked for major productions in Paris, Brussels, Oslo, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Auckland, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, San Juan and New Delhi. This makes Hwang the first U.S. playwright to become an international phenomenon in a generation, since the heyday...