Then the neighborhood changed, and it got dangerous.
The result is that you've got dangerous, congested, economically under-performing streets.
Old-timers such as Cabaret, revamped with Jane Horrocks in the Minelli role, and Oliver! for which he persuaded an uneasy Jonathan Pryce to adopt the Fagin leer, got dangerous, sexy and must-see status under Mendes.
He lived in Mexico but, "when things got dangerous, especially for my children", moved across the border in 1998, and until recently taught French at a university in Albuquerque.
"My father took me and my brothers to a sturdier house nearby, but my mother said she was not afraid and only if things got dangerous, then she would come".
W E would turn back if it got dangerous, we told ourselves, sneaking out of Djibouti in the dead of night by sailboat and rubber raft to the closed-off country of South Yemen, which was Communist at the time and torn by a brief but vicious civil war fueled by tribal animosity and khat.
