When Michael Jackson died in 2009, Norman native Max Weitzenhoffer just so happened to be chairman of Nimax Theatres, which was presenting Thriller Live at its Apollo Theatre in central London. Ticket sales exploded, leading to an eight-year run. When The Phantom of the Opera was being adapted for Broadway by Andrew Lloyd Webber in […]
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Max on Mummers, mack
Then they got this idea to build this Stage Center structure with the theater in it. Away from the fact that it was uneconomical to operate, the reality is that it was designed for a type of theater that basically isn’t executed anymore. What’s happened is the same problem we had with Rupel J. Jones […]
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Nine is enough?
The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents recently gave President David L. Boren the authority to negotiate all alignment options, prompting a largely anticipated move to the Pacific-12 with Oklahoma State University and possible other Big 12 cohorts. But before Pistol Pete loaded up the Sooner Schooner and moved to Beverly — er, Walnut Creek, […]
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True, the Pacific-12 Conference already had a dozen members, but media reports indicated that the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and other possible Big 12 schools would join Colorado there. The OU Board of Regents recently gave President David L. Boren the authority to negotiate all alignment options — prompting an anticipated move to […]