Since then, they have declined and declined, with episodic mini-revivals to mask the trend.
They and the Italians are enduring an ersatz recovery, derivative of more authentic revivals elsewhere.
Revivals of any sort--from White Castle hamburgers to the Ford T-Bird--carry a high risk.
The difference between revivals and originals this season is unquestionably one of quality not quantity.
History shows that retail-spending recoveries tend to lead economic recoveries, not investment revivals (which lag economic revival).
It is now enjoying one of its periodic revivals, this time by marketing itself as family entertainment.
They're getting back to basics with newer fashion-focused fabrics to use on revivals of '60s mod classics and '90s grunge.
Nineteen dramas -- revivals and new works -- were produced on Broadway, the most in any season in the past 15 years.
High-profile revivals dominate the theater landscape this season, both on- and off-Broadway.
That revivals are currently the toast of the town means nothing to the plays' producers when the Tonys are announced early next month.
The East European nations could pledge to pay full market prices for such energy supplies as soon as their respective economic revivals permit.
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Land on a one-in-a-thousand hit like Music Man, and you stand to collect a long string of royalty checks from revivals and road shows.
Experience suggests that export revivals are led by highly productive industries that already export a lot, rather than less productive industries regaining old markets.
While several truly new musicals are set to open this fall, much of the buzz and box office is gravitating toward the big revivals.
By and large, the timing, casting and impeccable direction of the current revivals are not shared by the season's debuts, though there are exceptions.
Indeed, over the past five years, the number of original plays performed on Broadway has increased while the number of revivals has steadily waned.
To look back on the year of "Follies" is to be reminded that it's revivals, not new work, that make American theater go 'round these days.
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In recent months I've seen revivals of three large-cast plays written in the 1930s and '40s that offer a priceless reminder of how things used to be.
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Now the negative result seems sure to spark more controversy and to crimp the fast sales growth that has helped the revivals of both Merck and Schering-Plough.
Her revivals of both "Hair" and "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" have not only gone to Broadway but have won Tonys for best revival of a musical.
In the past hundred years, revivals have been exceedingly rare.
Gilliam joins a programme that includes the UK premieres of 10 productions and four revivals of recent hits, including Philip Glass's Satyagraha and the late Anthony Minghella's Madam Butterfly.
More familiar comedies and recent Broadway hits, fewer challenging new shows and revivals of great plays of the past: That seems to be the direction in which American theater is moving.
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The Royal Court Theatre's Now or Later, written by Christopher Shinn, competes with two Donmar Warehouse revivals - Othello, starring Ewan McGregor, and The Chalk Garden - for the theatre prize.
Stephen Sondheim may be a Broadway baby, but most of the best revivals of his musicals have been mounted in small-to-medium-size theaters and accompanied by chamber ensembles, not budget-busting pit orchestras.
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In truth, the Tories had entered a pattern of decline from a high point in the 1950s, with sporadic mini-revivals - although successive peaks mostly tended to be lower than the last.
An intimate, 100-minute revival at Classic Stage Company opened Thursday night on the small thrust stage, crisply directed and designed by John Doyle (director of the Broadway revivals of "Sweeney Todd" and "Company").
Mr. Sondheim's iridescent harmonies have never come across so lucidly, and the fact that everybody in the cast sings exceptionally well (something that can never be taken for granted in Sondheim revivals) is continually gratifying.
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