According to Bart's unauthorised biographer David Roper, the producer Donald Albery took an option on the strength of a few tape-recorded songs and bought and staged it for just £15,000.
Unexpected snowstorms, thrilling comebacks, unlikely stars, invading bugs — the entire season has been downright eerie for the Indians, who play a few tape-measure home runs from the shores of Lake Erie.
But still, there are a few tapes that haven't been watched.
The set Zhao kept were missing a few tapes, but then they found them again.
The reason that there were so few tapes, presumably, was because others had been previously discarded or recorded over.
And on the few tapes in which Mr. Rajaratnam suggests to colleagues that he received tips about Goldman, Mr. Gupta "isn't even mentioned by name," Mr. Naftalis said.
If you took an interest, you'd copy a few tapes, listen to those over and over, until they began to make sense, and then copy some more.
In a few taped gallery appearances, he reveals himself to be both a deft stand-up comic and an actor and writer of withering power.
Before reprising this work, he would have done well to watch a few tapes of Richard Pryor or Lily Tomlin performing their one-person shows.
When prodded, he admited that he owned a few tapes himself (videos from the 1950's and 60's), although he claimed he "got them on a lark".
