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Whether Disney spent $12 million mounting Beauty, as its moguls claim, or a more beastly $20 million, as some theater insiders assert, it has bet big on its belief in a vast untapped stage audience yearning for family entertainment -- even in the honky-tonk heart of Manhattan, even at a $65 top-ticket price, even at a 10:30 p.m. curtain-call time, when much of the target audience should be in bed. So far, business has been good. The day after Beauty opened, it set an all-time Broadway record for a single day's ticket sales...
...effective, if less elaborate than the costumes. Designers Kenni Feinberg and Maura Henry rely largely on a fuzzy Manhattan skyline for a backdrop with moveable triangular flats on either side. Together with lighting designer Matthew Duhan, they have done a credible job of turning the Cabot Junior Common Room into a theater...
Take Back the Night varies from university to university, and at Harvard, the rally and march traditionally comprise only one night of a week long series of events designed to educate the community about violence against women. This year, for example, speakers included Linda Fairstein, the head of the Manhattan district attorney's sex crimes unit, and Sarah Buell, former director of the domestic violence unit at the Suffolk Country D.A.'s office...
...noted that several violent crimes by foreigners in recent years--including the World Trade Center bombing, an attempted bombing of government buildings in Manhattan and a shooting at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters--have built up public fears about immigrants...
...Linda Fairstein, head of the Manhattan district attorney's sex-crimes unit, will speak on the legal system's response to rape at the Institute of Politics on April...