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When Angels in America opened its Pulitzer-prizewinning first half, Millennium Approaches, in May, the producers' main worry was keeping it afloat long enough to get the second half, Perestroika, up and running. They feared Millennium's gay outlook might limit audiences to homosexuals, sympathetic straights and the relative handful of theater mavens who see everything. Nobody worried about the logistics of using the same eight actors to perform one 3 1/2-hour play and rehearse another, let alone installing sets for the sequel on the same stage where Millennium was playing...
They needn't have fretted about money. Millennium has played to 98% of capacity and repaid a third of its investment. And as for the supposedly easy part, mounting the second half? One $2 million nightmare later, after daily rewrites, stagehand mania, 49 foregone performances (to the occasional rage of ticketholders who traveled from as far as Maine) and cuts of nearly an hour once Perestroika was already in previews, the most awaited -- and beleaguered -- dramatic event of the Broadway season officially opened last week. If less profound than it pretends to be and a bit repetitively in love with...
...producers profess only delight. Says Rocco Landesman, president of the Jujamcyn theater-ownership group that is co-financing and housing Millennium and Perestroika: "When we look back on this in five or 10 years, we are not going to remember our exasperation at the script coming in late or how much money it cost. We are going to remember that we are the producers of Angels in America, the most important play in a generation...
...Angels in America" consists of two plays, "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika...
...intent is not to preach or cause guilt in dieters, however, Miller said. Fried foods, ice cream and other student favorites, despite high fat or low protein, will not leave the menu any time within the millennium...