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...honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary, the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) decided to give the people of Boston a present: the production of Carmen on the Common. Over the past year, the BLO has spent over a million dollars on Carmen, and its employees have poured an equal amount of energy into the project. Some could imagine, however, that even the most resourceful of BLO employees were overwhelmed upon discovering that the Boston Common sprinklers had soaked all of the costumes the day of the dress rehearsal...
...founder of Balaji Telefilms, a soap-opera production company, Kapoor, 27, is the queen of Indian TV. Four top shows on India's leading network are Balaji soaps, and ad rates on the highest-rated programs just hit a record $31,000 for 30 sec. Balaji has earned the prestigious Emerging Company of the Year award from the Economic Times of India...
...curb to remind people of sea level and a huge indoor aviary at the departure gate to evoke the wonder of flight. He has also been inundated with offers to design more Broadway-show sets, which he's less eager to do. He's looking for something new: opera, maybe...
...time to start worrying about the dumbing down of the Broadway musical? The trend is alarming. Say what you will about the Brit-pop musicals that dominated Broadway in the 1980s and '90s, but shows like Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera at least had big ambitions and tried to engage the audience emotionally. The Broadway hits of the past few years have been of a different, more frivolous sort. Most of them are aimed at kids (The Lion King), or they hark back to old-fashioned eras with tongue planted in cheek (42nd Street, Thoroughly Modern...
Falling in love with fiction is a favorite LaBute theme; in Nurse Betty, which he directed but didn't write, the heroine convinces herself she is a soap-opera character. In Possession, the literary detectives Roland and Maud are stand-ins for any novel's attentive reader. Turning the pages, we become involved in a vicarious espionage of the heart and then surrender to the spell of fantasy made real through a weaving of words...