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coming the audience with a multi-lingual, multi-media sequence. . .and the show's recently altered ending. Now, in the final number, when the actors sum up how they think the audience like the show, each actor does it in a different language.

Actors are a group particularly affected by the foreign audience factor. Being an American actor in a show like Oh! Calcutta! – where sometimes as much as ninety percent of the audience may not understand what you're saying – is a unique theatrical and professional situation. Norman Weiler – who's appeared in Oh! Calcutta! for the last four months – has learned "not to take it personally" if the audience doesn't laugh in the right places. "At first, I did get upset," he admits. "But then you come to realize that it's more than a question of language. It's also that their whole makeup and personality may be different from ours. A Japanese person doesn't necessarily react in the same way that an American does. And even if they don't get it all, they still enjoy the show. They still applaud. That's the important thing."


According to Lennie Cobb over at Dancin', they not only applaud . . . they often report back to him on the show. "You see them come out at intermission and after the show," he observes. "They're very excited. A lot of them come to the window and say 'very nice'. . .'never saw anything like that before.' I think they get a tremendous experience from the whole thing."

Nancy Shapiro, who sometimes escorts are American Express overseas groups to the theatre, agrees: "I can tell they're excited just with the idea of going to a Broadway show. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Broadway is so much more than just the show. It's the whole experience. Even coming out of the theatre is exciting. On Forty-fourth Street,there are five theatres on one block – and they're all lit up and there are thousands of people milling about. Even for a New Yorker, it's a thrill – let alone a foreigner who doesn't have this on a regular basis. No wonder they love it – it's magic!"

Magic. For Americans – and now the world – that's what Broadway's all about.

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"Nobody ever returned a diamond for being a size too large." Lauren Bacall

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B. A heart of 20 marquise-shaped diamonds, totaling over 2 carats, set in a 14 karat gold pendant/pin. $2900.
C. Emeralds and diamonds set in an 18 karat gold ring. $2500.

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