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'Hamilton' arrives in Dallas at a pivotal moment in the arts
Filed under Theater at Mar 28
Michael Granberry, Arts Writer
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More than any musical in the history of Broadway, Hamilton was and is a turning point. It tells the story of the Founding Fathers as seen through the eyes of today's immigrants. In that regard, it makes the most powerful statement possible about today's hot-button issue: immigration.
It served as another turning point by shattering boundaries for Broadway music by importing hip-hop and rap into a land once exclusively occupied by such traditional fare as Fiddler on the Roof and Oklahoma!
But when it lands in Dallas on April 2, it looms as a far more parochial turning point. It opens the door to the makeover of Fair Park while doubling as the official olive branch for a new relationship between once-warring parties: the AT&T Performing Arts Center — which lost out on Hamilton — and Dallas Summer Musicals, which reached its own turning point by landing Hamilton, thus eliminating a financial and cultural losing streak that lingered for years.
5 things to know before seeing 'Hamilton' in Dallas
Winning the rights to Hamilton has already produced startling results. Dallas Summer Musicals' pre-Hamilton season-ticket base hovered in the low 8,000s. Since the contract was signed, however, the figure has soared to an astonishing 37,000-plus.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings photographed outside the Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Arts District on March 21, 2019.
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Mayor Mike Rawlings sees Hamilton as the perfect symbol for Dallas Arts Month, which he created and which begins April 1, not long before the mayor leaves office. He loves the fact that it's happening in Fair Park, which will soon undergo a much-needed redesign, via a public-private partnership that Rawlings helped navigate.
And besides all that, it is simply a terrific show, having won 11 Tony awards, a Grammy award and the Pulitzer Prize since opening in 2015. As The New York Times said in its review of the Broadway premiere, "Yes, it really is that good." The Times further anointed the show with a headline that proclaimed: "Young rebels changing history and theater."
But that was nearly four years ago. And in the case of Dallas, there is more to the story than the show itself. To fully understand the invasion of Hamilton, it's important to know the where as much as the who and what.
Mister Fix-It
Which brings us to David Hyslop, the Mr. Fix-It of arts organizations. This is the pattern for Hyslop: He swoops in to clean up the mess and then returns to Minnesota, where he lives.
In 2016, Hyslop — who has performed similar rescue missions for the Dallas Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra — helped Dallas Summer Musicals find its swagger after the firing of longtime managing director Michael A. Jenkins.
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Hyslop helped arrange a partnership with Broadway Across America, which honored DSM with the rights to Hamilton — in Fair Park, no less, not downtown Dallas, where the competing AT&T Performing Arts Center is headquartered.
It didn't hurt that Broadway Across America is an underwriter of Hamilton. Since agreeing to put Hamilton in Fair Park, the New York-based company has acquired an even bigger role. In their new partnership, Broadway Across America will collaborate on programming for both venues and decide where best to place some of the shows: the Winspear Opera House (with 2,200 seats) or the Music Hall at Fair Park (with 3,420). The Winspear is a few months shy of its 10th birthday; the Music Hall is six years shy of its 100th. It opened in 1925.
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For Hyslop, it meant turning to those who know to determine the best outcome.
"I've learned to know what I don't know," he said in a recent interview. "I have learned to run a nonprofit, but I don't know Broadway."
So, the question became, "Did we want to continue to book our own shows, as Dallas Summer Musicals had in the past, or did we want to pursue an agreement with someone else?"
'Hamilton' is coming to Dallas Summer Musicals — but you'll have to wait for it
Hyslop said he learned in the process that "Dallas was incredibly important to touring Broadway — period, the end."
Even so, some companies worried whether Dallas Summer Musicals would even survive. And what would have happened had it not won the Hamilton sweepstakes?
"But we made the deal" with Broadway Across America, and that, Hyslop says, became "the turning point."
Broadway Across America liked the Winspear's newer, sexier downtown location, but what Hyslop sought to sell was greater availability at the Music Hall at Fair Park, which relies almost exclusively on touring Broadway shows. The AT&T Performing Arts Center, by comparison, fills up available dates with all sorts of programming. It also has five resident companies, including the Dallas Opera, whose home is the Winspear.
Fans line up at Music Hall at Fair Park for their chance to get tickets to Hamilton.
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Availability and capacity sealed the deal.
"If we had not made the deal with Broadway America," Hyslop says, pausing, well, Dallas Summer Musicals would have faced far more precarious financial circumstances.
In many ways, it felt like the title of a hit from Hamilton:
"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story."
The AT&T Performing Arts Center is no stranger to dire circumstances. In 2016, its leadership revealed a daunting capital debt of $151 million. From its own savings, ATTPAC paid $56 million toward that amount; its lenders forgave $45 million; and $8 million came from outstanding pledges, leaving $42 million.
Later in 2016, the city agreed to help with the debt by making annual contributions of $1.5 million a year for 10 years.
That left $27 million, which ATTPAC pledged to raise on its own. It got a major boost in April 2017, when the Galveston-based Moody Foundation donated $12 million toward retiring the debt, in return for the city giving City Performance Hall a new name: Moody Performance Hall. ATTPAC has since reached its own turning point by lowering its once-crippling debt to a much more manageable $1.3 million.
As for the new era of cooperation with Dallas Summer Musicals and Broadway Across America, "I think it's the right agreement, to begin to show goodwill," says Matrice Ellis-Kirk, chairman of the ATTPAC board. "I'm a firm believer that, if a relationship goes south, it's not just one-sided, it's always two-sided. We're not going to do anything to compete with them."
Matrice Ellis-Kirk, chairman of the board of trustees of the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
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She contends that, had the relationship existed before bidding for Hamilton, Broadway Across America would most likely have placed it in the Music Hall, because of its surplus of seats.
Shows such as Wicked and Waitress "will always" go to the Music Hall, she says, whereas Falsettos "will more likely come to us, as will other smaller shows. That's what we've opened ourselves up for."
She sees Hamilton as a turning point in "helping us have a transparent, collaborative relationship, which should be good not only for us but also the city. ATTPAC is very excited about this partnership." As part of the deal, Dallas Summer Musicals is making available a block of tickets to Hamilton for ATTPAC season subscribers.
Ellis-Kirk saw the show on Broadway, with its original cast. She sees it as "a transformational force, not only in bringing a culture — and hip-hop is a culture — into a large institution, but also in the way it embraces a diverse audience."
For Dallas to give it that kind of exposure in a traditional venue "will help to demystify the hip-hop culture and take away some of the negative connotations that exist with that culture."
Staging the show at the Music Hall, "with its donor base, its subscription base and in the Fair Park area is," she says, "masterful."
She sees the show as having the power to sway even the most unlikely converts. She compares the rise of hip-hop via Hamilton as running parallel to the rise of Motown, "which people also viewed as its own culture. Just think of how that brought people and communities together." It introduced to a much wider audience such sensations as the Temptations, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder.
"So, to have Hamilton in the Music Hall is, I think, wonderful," Ellis-Kirk says, "and a turning point I welcome."
But in a perfect world, Ellis-Kirk still wishes the outcome had been different. "It would have been fantastic," she says, "to show Hamilton at the Winspear. Absolutely."
UPDATED, Mar. 29, 2019 at 3:28 p.m.: This story was updated to further clarify the relationship between Broadway Across America and AT&T Performing Arts Center and Dallas Summer Musicals.
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Law clerk in Flint, M.I.
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The store had the feeling, stubbornly, of a party. There was generically cheerful music playing more loudly than you'd expect over the speakers -- "Sweet Caroline," maybe some Stevie Wonder, I don't really remember -- and the narrow aisles of Witherbee's, the self-proclaimed first downtown Flint grocery store in over 30 years, faltered under the strain of the shoppers who had descended like vultures upon its discounted corpse. In front of me in the checkout line, a young boy peek-a-booed behind his mother's leg.
Behind me, a very pregnant teen with acne stood victoriously over a mound of chocolate bars ("My pregnant ass wants junk food," she announced to no one in particular), while her younger brother sulked around the store, alternately fingering his wispy, cookie duster mustache and the half-smoked cigarette tucked behind his ear. Their father lamented loudly about the closing of Witherbee's and the general decline of Flint with a middle-aged woman in a business suit who was buying four bottles of wine at wholesale. "Such a shame, such a shame," they said, over and over. Normally, these aisles were empty, and I had never seen most of these customers before.
Which was why, I guess, the store was closing.
Witherbee's has stood for the past year as first an eager, now a very reluctant symbol of downtown Flint. First was the flushed excitement of the white lights and black-and-yellow-checkered tile of a once-abandoned building ushering food and toiletries into a neighborhood that hadn't seen such teeming shelves in decades.
The style and tone of Witherbee's matched the new lofts and restaurants that have sprung up in recent years along Saginaw Street: large windows, bright lights, a sharp but pleasing contrast to the historically stunning, sometimes crumbling, brick office buildings and golden-lighted arches that hearken back to Flint's heyday. Perhaps most significantly, Witherbee's is located north of the Flint River.
As a recent transplant to the city, I didn't fully appreciate the weight of this fact, especially since I moved into the Durant, kitty corner from Witherbee's, also holding its ground north of the river. In the '80s and '90s, the Flint River was the northern boundary of downtown Flint, with the decaying carcass of the Durant, a once-fancy hotel, standing as Cerberus to the north end of the city.
You didn't go north of the river. Now, the landscape has changed: the Durant has been renovated, the Carriagetown houses slowly fill with students, Hoffman's Deli battles an ever-expanding lunch crowd, and you don't go north of Rally's, almost half a mile beyond the river. In 2010, these blocks, these houses, these people living and working in downtown Flint deserved a full-service grocery store.
And in 2011, they don't.
There has been a steady stream of speculation over the root of Witherbee's failure, which it first broadcast over the summer when it was having trouble paying its bills: uncooperative investors, inexperienced managers, bad location, the rent is too damn high. It should be noted that Witherbee's Holding Company, which first bought and retrofitted the building, is seeking experienced grocery store operators to take the reins of a business model -- selling groceries in a neighborhood that doesn't have them -- it still believes can work.
And it should be noted that the Grainery Natural Grocery, farther south and a block west of Saginaw, has been hawking organic food since 1979. This neighborhood is not deprived of all hope, nor, strictly speaking, of groceries. (Though I maintain that man cannot live on specialty meats alone.) But it's hard not to think, as an emergency financial manager breathes down the city's back, that small failures like the closing of a young, local grocery store are not just bad management and high rent.
It's hard not to think that they are emblematic of something deeper, something more vast and less curable, something that plagues the city and state, as simply and Einsteinly there as gravity. It's hard not to think that inevitably, no matter what efforts are made, downtown Flint, as I overheard in Witherbee's on the night before it closed, "doesn't get to keep nice things."
I have not been living in the city long, but I wonder if I will forget the feeling of standing in line at Witherbee's that night. The music was loud, yes, and the chatter of the people masked, superficially, the somberness of the moment. My mind was quiet, though, still and a little sad. The little boy in front of me kept staring at me, so I smiled at him; the teenager behind me prattled on about her pregnancy and had her younger brother -- wait, was he her brother? -- grab her another chocolate bar. I felt personally at stake in this defeat: did they feel it too?
Finally, I was rung up. Cans of soup and oatmeal and cereal bars: things that wouldn't go bad quickly, things that were left on the shelf after the first rush. I recognized the man bagging my groceries as one of the store's operators, whom I had seen many times before, but we didn't talk. There was nothing to say: the thing speaks for itself. Plus, I was trying to figure out how to carry all my bounty across the street.
The man stacked in my arms three brown paper bags, adorned with a simultaneously feisty and smiley cartoon bee. A fun, friendly logo. The man said nothing until I was at the door, pushing out of the white light and back into the rain.
"Thank you for shopping at Witherbee's."
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Elena Luchian, October 7, 2014
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The designers call it the "capital of fashion". The soccer lovers call it the "capital of calcio". The Italians say it's just a very crowded cita! But today, we're calling it the… the "smart capital". The new smart fortwo and smart forfour, that will be launched on November 22nd, played smart urban golf in Milan.
The smart brand ambassadors and Olympic beach volleyball champions, Julius Brink and Jonas Reckerman played "smart urban golf" with two golf professionals, Marcel Siem and Moritz Lampert. Before you get to say it wasn't fair, please, just wait a second! Brink and Lampert were on one side and Reckerman and Siem on the other side. So let's do the math: we had four people, two cars, smart fortwo and smart fourfour, and one game.
"smart Urban golf is a mix of two sports – it has the laid-back aspect of beach volleyball, but it is actually golf", said Jonas Reckerman, right before sending the ball into the mini-boot of the smart.
The golf professionals and the amateurs went head to head, like the name of the games says, in an urban environment. A park, an unused factory site and even Plaza del Duomo in central Milan were the improvised golf course with improvised holes. As we said before, the players targetted the boot of the smart fortwo, the tailgate of the forfour and even the middle of the lake.
Moritz Lampert was delighted. "I had only played urban golf once before, in a car park. It's great fun, because it is our sport – but in a different setting."
By sending the cars and the sportsmen into the urban jungle, the smart brand wanted to prove – once more, if necessary – the suitability for the crowded city typical for the smart vehicles. They are small enough to squeeze in through heavy traffic and through narrow Milanese winding streets, but spacious enough to fit the golf clubs. "The smart is and remains the perfect city car", said Marcel Siem, while his colleague was pretty much impressed by the innovative sat nav system. "You simply enter the address and drive straight to your destination, without having to start looking for a parking space five minues before you get there", the Olympic champions stated.
Join the golf professionals and the beach volleyball champions in their city ride and smart urban golf game, in the following video!
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Ji Chun-gil (; 1943 – November 2, 1995) was a South Korean serial killer who, from March to October 1990, killed six elderly women in Andong during robberies, burning their apartments in an attempt to cover his tracks. Initially sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes, it was changed to a death sentence on appeal, leading to his subsequent execution in 1995.

Early life
Born in Daegu in 1943, Ji was orphaned at an early age and as nobody took care of him, he spent the entirety of his childhood and adolescence doing whatever he pleased. He often travelled around Daegu and eventually resorted to small-time crime, getting his arrest for theft in 1960, spending some time in a juvenile detention center. For the next 20 years, Ji would be repeatedly incarcerated for a variety of offences, spending a majority of his time behind bars.

In the fall of 1989, he was released from the Cheongsong Detention Center, whereupon he is said to have attempted to adapt to society, but his criminal record and impoverished financial status prevented him from finding a job. Embittered and with a growing feeling of disdain, Ji began living at a house in Songhyeon-dong in Daegu, where he kept himself isolated from others.

Murders
On March 7, 1990, at around 1 AM, Ji broke into a house located in a mountainous region of Andong, where he was confronted by the 62-year-old homeowner, Nam Ok-soon. Using some string he found inside the house, Ji tied her hands, put a blanket over her and then knocked over a drawer over her to keep her immobilized. After ransacking the home for valuables, he set fire to the blanket and left the house, which was soon engulfed in flames. On June 16, at around 1 AM, he entered a secluded home in Pacheon-myeon, Cheongsong County, where he tied up 67-year-old Kim Oh-sun, robbed her of valuables and then set fire to her house, killing her in the process.

On September 27, at around 8 PM, he entered a secluded house in Andong, but as nobody was present at the time, he stole any valuable item he could find before burning it to the ground. On October 13, he broke into another isolated house in Andong, where he subdued 58-year-old Kim Gwi-nyeon, from whom he stole a pair of gold rings. Afterwards, Ji put a blanket over her body, knocked down a set of drawers, and then lit the house on fire, leaving Kim to burn to death. Six days later, he broke inside a house in Andong, occupied by 71-year-old Park Yulmi-gol and two of her friends, 64-year-old Kim Soo-il and 70-year-old Baek Jae-su, who had been there for a sleepover. After waking up the three grandmothers, Ji threatened them and demanded money, but when all three refused, he bound their hands and feet with their skirt and jeogori straps before putting a blanket over all three. He then went into the kitchen, lit a LPG cylinder and threw it into the bedroom, where it blew up and killed all three women. The resulting explosion cut off water and electricity supply to the region, leading a local resident  to investigate the cause, finding the bodies of Park and her companions. Soon after the police were informed, a full-fledged investigation was launched in order to solve the mysterious arson and bombings incidents that had occurred in the area for the past few months.

Arrest, trial and imprisonment
On November 2, at around 9 PM, Ji was skulking around a rural house in Bonghwa County, where an elderly man and four elderly women were living. While the residents were watching TV, he planned to break inside using a pick axe, but when he did, he made too much noise and was noticed by the man, who subsequently called the police. Several hours later, officers arrived in the area and started searching extensively, eventually finding Ji holed up in the corner of a room in an abandoned house. After violently resisting the officers, he was eventually cuffed and dragged away. At this time, he started shouting angrily, claiming that he wanted to take revenge on society due to the imposed stigma of being an ex-convict. He made similar statements in his subsequent interrogation, claiming that he planned to get on the news by killing celebrities and lawmakers, after which he would commit suicide.

At his murder trial, Ji suddenly recanted his confession, claiming that detectives had tortured him by throwing water mixed with chili powder on him. This claim was not regarded seriously, with Ji subsequently being found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, at a follow-up appeal in 1991, his sentence was changed to the death penalty, with the court ruling that the six murders committed by him were extremely cruel and thusly warranted his permanent isolation from society.

Execution
On November 2, 1995, only four years after his death sentence was confirmed, Ji was hanged at the Seoul Detention Center. He was one of a dozen violent criminals executed on that day, including the six male members of the Chijon family and rapist-turned-spree killer Oen Bo-hyun.

See also
 List of serial killers by country

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Refractory metals refer to a class of substances with good electrical and thermal conductivity that possess a very high melting point of greater than 2000°C (3632°F). They are strongly resistant to wear, deformation and corrosion.
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These elements possess similar electronic structures to one another - characterized by transition elements with incomplete D sub-shells on the subatomic microscopic level.
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