Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Russians would primarily be aiming at economic targets, according to the study's script, their attack would take an enormous human toll because U.S. oil production facilities are near Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other large cities. In the first hour after the strike, more than 5 million Americans would be killed by searing heat, explosive force, high winds, fire and crumbling buildings, if the Soviet warheads exploded aboveground. (Airbursts suck up relatively little debris to settle back to earth later as radioactive fallout.) If the Soviet missiles were detonated at ground level, immediate fatalities would...
Baker seemed comfortable with himself too a few weeks ago on Nantucket, though he had reason for discomfort. For a year or more he had worked on the script of an ill-fated play called Home Again, with music by Cy Coleman (On the Twentieth Century) and lyrics by Barbara Fried...
...burlesqued the experience in a column: "Just one more script and that island in the Aegean would be mine. I wrote another script... No longer were we doing a musical about a paraplegic cabdriver who falls in love with a tollbooth collector at the Lincoln Tunnel. Somehow, inexorably, because there's no business like show business, the musical had turned into the story of a fast-food-chain heiress who falls in love with a Marine corporal during the Boxer Rebellion...
...People were walking out in droves," recalls Thomas Meehan, who wrote the script. The company began to follow. Director-Lyricist Martin Charnin, part of the team that made Annie a success, was replaced by Cy Feuer, producer of such hits as Guys and Dolls and Can-Can. "There was a confrontation between Liv and me as to how the musical would work," explains Charnin. Cohen and Feuer decided that more excitement was needed. Enter two dancers. They did not fit and were fired. A new choreographer arrived with six more dancers. Rodgers, well known for his speed in composing...
Although the show began previews in New York on April 26, opening night was postponed from May 3 to May 24 to, at last notice, May 31. Meehan has been changing the script daily, and the actors must constantly learn new lines, lyrics and blocking. "I'd write a scene in the morning, they'd rehearse it in the afternoon and do it at night," says Meehan, who has been working about 18 hours a day. The cast has yet to perform the same version twice. "Some nights we get it, other nights we don't," says...