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...Susquehanna plant, began to analyze deficiencies in spent-fuel cooling systems. They realized that a problem had been sneaking up on the industry: half a dozen serious accidents at different plants had caused some water to drain from the pools. In the worst of them, at Northeast's Haddam Neck plant in 1984, a seal failure caused 200,000 gal. to drain in just 20 min. from a water channel next to the fuel pool. If the gate between the channel and the pool had been open, the pool could have drained, exposing the rods and causing a meltdown. Says...
...collapse of the genre: preposterous production and running costs, the aging or death (often from aids) of top practitioners, the defection of others to Disney movies, the ignoring of a younger generation's pop-musical tastes. Says Michael Price, executive director of the pacesetting Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut: "In the Golden Age of the musical, what you had was a lot of producers who threw a lot of product up into the air and a couple of shows stuck to the ceiling." Now, musicals are so costly that producers are afraid to fail...
...Frank's story about six years later. It is July 1988, Frank is 44, and he has given up sportswriting, which he says "is at best offering a harmless way to burn up a few unpromising brain cells while someone eats breakfast cereal." He now sells houses in Haddam, a leafy New Jersey exurb that bears more than a passing resemblance to Princeton, where he and his wife were once happy. She has remarried and moved to Connecticut with the two surviving children. And the elder one, Paul, 15, has entered a rough patch of adolescence, so much so that...
HERE'S LOVE. Can a street-corner Santa be the real thing in disguise? This musical adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street, at last getting the revival it deserves at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., answers that question in the happy affirmative...
...MOST HAPPY FELLA. A Frank Loesser minifestival seems to be under way with a superb staging of this musical drama about a mail-order bride at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam and another planned at the New York City Opera, and with a revival of his Guys and Dolls that is scheduled to open on Broadway next spring...