The musical was re-imagined by Ashman's partners Marsha Malamet and Dennis Green and performed one night only at Los Angeles ' Hayworth Theatre as part of the Bruno Kirby celebrity reading series, directed by Ugly Betty actor Michael Urie.

Willard was part of the one-night celebrity-performed staging of Howard Ashman's unproduced musical Dreamstuff.

Lewis was part of the one-night celebrity-performed staging of Howard Ashman's unproduced musical Dreamstuff.

A former coal mining village and home to the now-closed Polestar Purnells printing factory and Ashman's boot factory, where ' Voidax ' safety footwear was manufactured, and in particular Motorcycle speedway boots.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

I was innocent before I read them, but by the time I had read them all, there was nothing I did not know about sexual exploits … I had my degree in erotic lore.

His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London ..." In the year 1984 Big Brother appears on posters and the telescreen as a man of about 45.

These patrons were intrigued by the novelty of a female writer and had her compose texts about their romantic exploits.

" Although Marrow may have been using some artistic license in describing his bank robbing exploits, he also stated he was glad the United States justice system has a statute of limitations, which had likely expired when Marrow admitted to his involvement in multiple Class 1 Felonies in the early-to mid-1970s.

The elections of 1907 had returned a Reichstag more favourable to military exploits, following the refusal of the previous parliament to grant funds to suppress uprisings in colonies in South West Africa.

Word of her exploits had encouraged her family, and biographers agree that she became more confident with each trip to Maryland.

By the eve of the Revolution, Putnam had become a relatively prosperous farmer and tavern keeper, with more than a local reputation for his previous exploits.

In the negotiations, Tiberius recalled the exploits of his father Tiberius, who had also waged war in Spain but had struck a peace agreement with the Numantines.

Despite his explorations, the various Australian governments at the time turned their respective backs on his achievements once they had been completed, and refused to patronise any further exploits or give him much in the way of financial reward.

In his oration he says that she had to read ancient poetry, such as the Odyssey, in secret because her parents disapproved of its dealing with poly-theism and other “ dangerous exploits ,” which were considered “ dangerous ” for men and “ excessively insidious ” for women.

Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final period as a fugitive when his exploits included trying to kidnap a judge who had sentenced him.

In the five years of his conquests and administration in Bengal, the young man had crowded together a succession of exploits which led Lord Macaulay, in what that historian termed his " flashy " essay on the subject, to compare him to Napoleon Bonaparte, declaring that " gave peace, security, prosperity and such liberty as the case allowed of to millions of Indians, who had for centuries been the prey of oppression, while Napoleon's career of conquest was inspired only by personal ambition, and the absolutism he established vanished with his fall.

Prof. Henry was introduced to Prof. Thaddeus Lowe, a balloonist from New Hampshire who had taken interest in the phenomenon of lighter-than-air gases, and exploits into meteorology, in particular, the high winds which we call the Jet stream today.

Practical exploits had not been previously demonstrated for this vulnerability, which was originally discovered by Phillip Rogaway in 2002.

For all Smuts ' exploits as a general and a negotiator, nothing could mask the fact that the Afrikaners had been defeated and humiliated.

As he got older though he started to read the newspaper clippings that told of his father's exploits and got more and more curious about what had enabled his father to accomplish these feats.

Some of the Resistance groups he spoke of had never existed, and there was no proof of any of his claimed exploits.

A 2nd lieutenant at the end of the war, he had been assigned to military recruitment when he saw a barnstorming show, and realized his own usual flying exploits were far more impressive.

Modern commentators on the case, such as the author Aldous Huxley, have argued that the accusations began after Grandier refused to become the spiritual director of the convent, unaware that the Mother Superior, Sister Jeanne of the Angels, had become obsessed with him, having seen him from afar and heard of his sexual exploits.

In 1972, Leo Cahill followed up his recruiting exploits of 1971 by signing college superstar Eric “ The Flea ” Allen away from the NFL Baltimore Colts who had drafted Allen.

Grin had collected tidbits for his exploits from the Reading Room of the British Library.

The team of all the Talents could well have gone on to even greater exploits, however sadly the First World War intervened, and the team broke up.

In an era when the world had gone aviation mad, due to the exploits of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, Mary was more than able to hold her own.

This comment gives Poirot pause for thought and after his visitor has gone, Poirot gets acquainted with the exploits of his legendary namesake, deciding his final cases will mimic Hercules ' Twelve Labours.

A photograph in Stars and Stripes loosely inspired the exploits of PFC Jack Agnew in the 1965 novel and the 1967 film, The Dirty Dozen.

Randolph Stow wrote a humorous children's book Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy in 1967 which told the story of an Australian bushranger based on the life and exploits of Moondyne Joe and a Queensland bushranger Captain Starlight.

In “ a true socialist state no person exploits another, but everybody who is able to work … gets a his her income for his her labour ” ( Publicity Section, TANU, Dar es Salaam, 1967, p. 3 ).

The newly reborn Gigi joined Lotus Blossom on her exploits in the series, often serving as an enforcer for her.

He joined The Salt Lake Tribune in 1940, where his muckraking exploits included infiltrating polygamous Mormon fundamentalist sects.

In January 1874 Louis Becke, who later wrote stories of the exploits of Bully Hayes, joined the Leonora at Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Although most noted for his cricketing exploits, Shuter joined his father in business as a stave timber merchant and cooper.

Like many gunfighters of the " Old West ", Billy the Kid enjoyed a reputation built partly on exaggerated accounts of his exploits.

Rommel's book, written as a day to day journal of his World War I exploits, was used throughout the West as a resource for infantry tactical movements.

His most well-known military exploits took place in the West Indies during the American War of Independence, where he was involved in the French capture of a number of British possessions.

Not traditionally one of the giants of local cricket, they surprised many people by winning the NCU Senior League Section 1 three seasons ago, thanks largely to the exploits of New Zealander Regan West and all rounder Johnny Hewitt, who have now left the club.

Hugh Glass ( c. 1780 – 1833 ) was an American fur trapper and frontiersman noted for his exploits in the American West during the first third of the 19th century.

Since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC there has been no age in history, whether in the West or in the East, in which his name and exploits have not been familiar.

He operated in the Midwest and West South Central States, and his criminal exploits gained heavy press coverage in the 1930s.

The story was lightly suggested by the actual exploits of the guy who opened China to the West.