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Deep pockets

by | 1:54 am | May 27, 2005

Which artists’ management company (hint: it’s one of the Big Three) is in such dire financial trouble that its president is regularly forced to dip into his own (considerable) private fortune to preserve the semblance of a positive cash flow?

Which big-name stage director recently showed up for rehearsals of a complicated opera completely unfamiliar with the music, and, for that matter the text — which is odd, since it’s in his native language?

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  • Anonymous says:

    About the stage director – might one guess Maximillian Schell, here in LA for “Rosenkavalier”?

    on May 28, 2005 at 9:11 PM