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Zoo Bar to
hold July
festival
From Staff Reports
This summer, it’s going to be a
blues extravaganza.
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St., cel
ebrates its 25th anniversary this sum
mer with a series of concerts running
July 6-11.
Larry Boehmer, owner of the Zoo
Bar, said the festival consists of 20
national acts and five regional acts,
some of which include Magic Slim
and the Teardrops, Radio King, Little
Ed and the Blues Imperials,
Bossphilly and The Self Righteous
Brothers.
He said the first four nights the
shows will be held indoors with three
or four bands per night, and the
remaining shows will be taken out
doors.
Boehmer said tickets, which went
on sale last week, are available in two
forms, a weeklong pass for $60 that
includes admission for all the shows,
or $5 per night at the gate of the out
door shows.
For more information, call the
Zoo Bar at (402) 435-8754.
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Sinatra, 82, feeling well,
doing fine, says his wife
LOS ANGELES (APj -
Frank Sinatra spends his days
soaking up the warmth of the sun
and his family, despite reports he
is on his death bed, his wife says.
“The rumors are just crazy.
You can’t believe it. He’s doing
very well. You’d think they’d just
stop with it,” Barbara Sinatra
said Monday.
The 82-year-old entertainer
hasn’t been seen in public since
before a January 1997 heart
attack, which led to tabloid
reports that he is gravely ill and
has been given last rites by the
Catholic church several times.
“It doesn’t bother him any
more. I guess he’s used to it. You
just roll with the punches,”
Barbara Sinatra said during a tele
phone interview to promote the
Frank Sinatra Las Vegas Celebrity
Classic charity golf tournament.
“He’s strong and walking around.
We’re enjoying friends.”
She said he hasn’t ruled out
attending next month’s tourna
ment, which benefits the
Barbara Sinatra Children’s
Center at Eisenhower Medical
Center in Rancho Mirage and
the Las Vegas Opportunity
Village.
Former Disney duo
to meet on Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) - Opening
soon on Broadway! The failed busi
ness relationship between Disney
CEO Michael Eisner and one-time
superagent Michael Ovitz is being
restaged as a Times Square rivalry.
Ovitz, formerly Disney’s No. 2
man, has accepted an offer to take
control of Livent Inc., the ambitious
theatrical company that produced the
Broadway musical “Ragtime,” the
company announced Monday.
Livent co-founder Garth
Drab insky will step aside as chairman
as Ovitz, who left the Walt Disney
Co. after 14 months work and a sever
ance package worth up to $130 mil
lion, becomes a major shareholder.
The move puts Ovitz in direct
competition with his former boss and
Disney - one of Livent’s star shows,
“Ragtime,” is playing across 42nd
Street from Disney’s New
Amsterdam Theatre where “The Lion
King” is playing.
Livent, based in Toronto, owns a
network of five theaters.
Ovitz will invest $20 million in
Livent, giving him a seat on the board
and a 12 percent stake in the compa
ny. He left Disney in December 1996.
Drabinsky will be replaced as
chairman and chief executive by U.S.
investment banker Roy Furman,
Livent said.
The announcement came as
Livent reported 1997 losses of $30
million, or a drop of $1.74 a share,
compared with a 1996 profit of $7.4
million, or 51 cents a share. Revenue
for 1997 was down slightly to $215
million.
Livent’s financial future has been
tied to the success of “Ragtime,”
which opened in New York last
December to many good reviews, but
has not been selling out. It cost more
than $ 12 million to produce.
Livent became a major player on
Broadway in 1993 with “Kiss of the
Spider Woman,” which, despite win
ning a Tony Award for best musical,
lost money during its two-year run.
Its successes have been its touring
company of “Joseph and die Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat,” starring
Donny Osmond, as well as a Toronto
production of “The Phantom of the
Opera,” which opened in 1989 .and is
still running. Livent said it also made
money on the Broadway runs of
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ring Christopher Plummer, and an
expensive revival of “Show Boat.” -
The company has been hurt, in
part, because of expansion costs and
debt refinancing.
Drabinsky - who has been chair
man, chief executive and in charge of
creative development for the compa
ny’s live theatrical productions - said
he recommended the changes so he
could devote more time to the cre
ative side of the company. He will
become vice chairman and chief cre
ative director for live theater.
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The changes are effective after
Ovitz’s share purchase from the com
pany is completed, expected to occur
after Livent’s annual meeting June 4.
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