Word: impresario
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GARTH DRABINSKY Broadway Impresario + Suspect Accounting = Dismissal. Could a creative type do all that math...
Hammerstein was born in New York City on July 12, 1895. His father William was a theatrical manager; his grandfather Oscar I, a legendary impresario who took on the Metropolitan Opera by building his own opera house. The young Oscar was stagestruck from childhood, and by the time he attended Columbia University, he was performing and writing amateur routines. It was after the Saturday matinee of a college varsity revue that he first met Rodgers, whose older brother brought him to the show. Years later, remembering this meeting, Hammerstein wrote, "Behind the sometimes too serious face of an extraordinarily talented...
Spring is upon us, and rap impresario SEAN ("Puffy") COMBS' sap must be rising. He decided to make love en plein air (but not, interestingly, with the mother of his newborn son). Alas, Combs, who thought he was enjoying the privacy of Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Fla., Mar-a-Lago Club, had strayed onto the sand of the veddy conservative Bath & Tennis Club. A B&T member took offense at the frolicking and sent a club official to stop it; according to the Palm Beach Daily News, an unabashed Puffy blasted the official for "ruining his concentration." A spokeswoman...
...boom is being fueled largely by two relatively new corporate players: the Walt Disney Co., which has two shows pulling in the family audience (Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King); and Livent Inc., the Canadian company run by impresario Garth Drabinsky that has produced Ragtime along with such crowd pleasers as Barrymore and the hit revival of Show Boat. Both companies have brought fresh ideas--economic and artistic--to Broadway as well as deep pockets: The Lion King cost a reported $20 million to mount, a Broadway record; Ragtime came in for about half that, but Drabinsky...
DIED. OWEN BRADLEY, 82, country-music impresario and creator of the "Nashville sound," which helped push the genre into the mainstream; in Nashville, Tenn. In 1955 Bradley opened the first recording studio in Nashville, where he later crafted some of country music's most enduring tunes, including I Fall to Pieces with Patsy Cline and Coal Miner's Daughter with Loretta Lynn...