1. And Hiawatha, which CTC staged two years ago, is being expanded into a full-length touring show. 2. But politicians are clearly delighted to have Memorial Auditorium free and clear for the bus-and-truck Broadway touring shows that do so well in Raleigh. 3. For the first time, TRL is staging a touring show that comes to Atlanta Saturday. 4. Her technical and artistic programs were the ones she performed in Stars on Ice, the touring show that pays her a seven-figure salary for four months. 5. It raises money in small increments from multiple investors and now also includes a booking agency that handles touring shows. 6. Late last year, it bought Pace, the leading producer of theatrical touring shows in the country, then went shopping for other theatrical properties across the map. 7. Once a second-string adjunct to the Great White Way, the touring show has surpassed New York productions in economic impact in the last five years. 8. One way to measure the dollars-and-cents motivation for landing a touring show is its financial impact on the surrounding community. 9. Smith headlines the touring show along with Davy Jones as disc jockey Vince Fontaine and Sally Struthers as no-nonsense English teacher Miss Lynch. 10. The costumes and some of the sets were pretty, though as a whole the presentation had the somewhat barren look of a touring show. |