The initial drop in the dollar was roughly 12%, and the dollar staged a modest recovery to the 138 level.
The dollar staged a moderate recovery, strengthened by the bond market's early rally.
I love rock bands -- guitar and drums -- but we're bringing four dancers on the road, having a magnificent million dollar stage -- on a level like only a certain amount of pop artists can do.
On world currency and bullion markets, trading stabilized somewhat after Tuesday's frenzied session, in which the dollar staged its biggest one-day drop in at least 14 years and gold posted its sharpest gain in more than a decade.
In recent decades (thanks in large part to the deep pockets of Disney Theatrical Productions), movie musicals that began as full-length animation features (Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid) and original movie musicals (Mary Poppins, Newsies) have become multi-million dollar stage vehicles drawing audiences into theatres in cities around the world.
He might have invited director DuVernay (a UCLA alum, no less) to bring some color to the Million Dollar stage, which happens to be just a few blocks from where Garcetti was feted not long ago as a "Person of the Year" by the LA chapter of the NAACP, along with the Rev. Al Sharpton.
It's also the only major North American festival where you get to spend three entire days surrounded by million-dollar stages and brain-splattering special effects.
Up to now, the set design, with its multimillion-dollar stage, has been a closely held secret.
Some reviewers who criticized the Met's new "Ring" cited its overreliance on a multimillion-dollar stage machine that sacrificed drama for spectacle (when it worked).
What we see of their theatrical exploits is pretty hysterical: coarse acting of the most tedious and amateurish nature, performed on million-dollar stage sets, watched by hundreds of tuxedo-clad patrons in a three-tiered opera house.
