One impresario found them refreshing after a recent run-in with a well-known folk-music personality, who had abruptly disappeared from her hotel after noticing that an instance of "improper land management" was visible from her window.
One impresario of the Shaloha lifestyle -- peace and love for all -- is Morty Breier, a Bronx-born, City College graduate now retired from his own engineering consulting firm in Greenwich, Conn.
One German impresario in the early 1900s said that every time he spotted her on the streets of his city, he went directly to the railroad station and took the first train out of town.
"Bigger is better" has been the mantra of more than one theater impresario.
One leading impresario told me he looked around at the motley crowd that had turned up to sit in judgment on one of his productions and he realised he didn't know a single one of them.
In those days before mass media, countless imitators moved in to capitalize on the success of others, using stage names blatantly designed to confuse anyone who might have vaguely recalled hearing the genuine articles praised: one flea circus impresario, Bertolotto, was followed by the opportunist Bartoletti; Munito the learned dog had to compete with two copycats, Monetto and Minetto.
Mr. McDermott will play PETER GATIEN, the one-eyed club impresario.
Along with Jacoby, Barney Josephson, and Max Gordon, Monk was one of the impresarios who trained a couple of generations of singers, comedians, and actors.
The flamboyant editor George Davis was one of the impresarios of an art commune at a Brooklyn Heights boarding house in the nineteen-forties, which attracted talents including Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, and Gypsy Rose Lee.
The scandal was arguably the quietest chapter of a life story involving New York celebrities, coke dealing stings, a gay porn star working at the UN, a one-eyed club impresario, the FBI, murder, and, eventually, suicide.
Such notions also took shape at the Ron Chereskin show on Friday afternoon, where Carson Kressley, one of the makeover impresarios on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," sat in the front row.
