But just as everyone's worst fears are about to be realized (big guys fighting! in a theater!), the pair fling themselves into a stylized, spotlighted struggle onstage.
Studios are fighting over 3-D theater space and are well aware that the handful of new 3-D movies made in the last year represented a disproportionate chunk of the box office.
The unit became known as "The Lightning Brigade," and it would have a transformative effect on fighting in the Western theater.
Another major musical, "Jane Eyre," an adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë epic playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, was fighting for its life yesterday.
Born August 5, 1921 in Manhattan, a veteran of World War II, he saw duty in the worst of the island fighting in the Pacific theater.
What's more, it finally persuaded studios and exhibitors to make the $3 billion transition to digital projection after 15 years of fighting between studios and theater owners.
She dominated Lake Tanganyika, providing a base to launch attacks against the Allied forces, making the water a central theater of fighting.
Tracing its lineage back to the 355th Engineer Regiment, the brigade assumed its predecessor's campaign participation credit and honors, which were received fighting in the European Theater of World War II.
It's a good message for the rest of us who leave the theater and go back to fighting the good fight every day.
Productions at Off Broadway's two largest theaters are fighting for audiences, trying to use deep pockets and a dash of star power to counteract reviews that ranged from less than stellar to truly terrible.
Watching as Taylor delivers Richards's best lines and depicts her fighting the good fight, a 50-plus theater-goer can't help but be inspired.
