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“Their proposals were always aimed at American space-based systems and always excluded a ground-based, pop-up antisatellite weapon such as theirs. The show vanishes for a while, it disappears, and it re-emerges one day before your audience is coming in. Minutes into the musical, he said, he recognized the disease and had his diagnosis. Maltby wrote in his conclusion, “partly because I’m fond of you and Claude-Michel, but it’s even more because I think that you have a really great musical here, potentially, if it can just be unlocked and released.” A letter like that is all but an invitation to be brought on to the creative team, which is exactly what happened, after the usual salary negotiations.
I don’t think we could have talked them out of testing against a target.” The Bush administration is hoping that the diplomatic protests that it and other nations lodged after the SC-19 test will dissuade the Chinese from conducting additional tests. The show vanishes for a while, it disappears, and it re-emerges one day before your audience is coming in. Later, audience members would clarify some of the shortcomings in the story, overheard in the lobby asking what was happening in a particular scene or why the main character had done this or that.
Minutes into the musical, he said, he recognized the disease and had his diagnosis. “I for some reason feel a personal stake in having this show be a success,” Mr. Daniele, and had wanted to work with her when he joined “The Pirate Queen” in the first place, but Mark Dendy was already the show’s lead choreographer. Acoustic alterations were made to the stage so the Irish dancing sounded just right. What administration officials did not say is that as the Chinese were preparing to launch their antisatellite weapon, American intelligence agencies had issued reports about the preparations being made at the Songlin test facility.
“The principals’ best judgment, including the leadership of the intelligence community, was that they were committed to testing the antisatellite weapon.” In neither case did the Bush administration complain to the Chinese, a senior official said. As the test preparations were under way, the Bush administration pondered how to respond. “There were discussions about different options of how to deal with a potential test that was coming up, whether you démarche them early on, whether you wait to see if they are successful, if they’re not,” said Lt. Ben Brantley, writing in The New York Times, said the show often looked like “the aimless milling of a crowd on a carnival midway.” In the end much of the criticism was aimed not at the story, but at the score. McColgan said, “a consensus that the big musical that the people identified with the ’80s was no longer fashionable.” The critic for The Tribune who had been negative but encouraging in his review of the show in Chicago, saw it again in New York and said big problems remained. I don’t think we could have talked them out of testing against a target.” General Pace, however, had little luck in discussing China’s antisatellite program during a visit to China last month.
And then,” she said, making a face of pained disappointment, “you go, ‘Oh.’ ” Minutes into the musical, he said, he recognized the disease and had his diagnosis. But while everyone had decided that the storytelling was unclear, it wasn’t the only problem.
But the day after the disappointing Chicago opening Mr. The Bush administration is hoping that the diplomatic protests that it and other nations lodged after the SC-19 test will dissuade the Chinese from conducting additional tests. “Then it goes up on the stage to do technical rehearsal, and there’s a period of three weeks for a show like this, and you lose touch entirely. Minutes into the musical, he said, he recognized the disease and had his diagnosis. “In this case it was like I was reading an X-ray.” But while everyone had decided that the storytelling was unclear, it wasn’t the only problem. Changes to the production continued during the long, sleepless weeks of rehearsals and previews in New York. Even tweaks have a way of adding up; $20,000 was spent to make a burning funeral pyre look more convincing. What administration officials did not say is that as the Chinese were preparing to launch their antisatellite weapon, American intelligence agencies had issued reports about the preparations being made at the Songlin test facility.
Three months after the Chinese launching, a new debate has developed as to whether the administration properly handled the episode or missed an opportunity to discourage the Chinese from crossing a new military threshold. “We did get warning that the test was being prepared,” said a senior administration official, who described the administration’s thinking in deciding not to ask the Chinese to cancel the test. In December 2006 and early January of this year, American intelligence agencies picked up signs that preparations for a third Chinese antisatellite test appeared to be under way.
The mobile missile launcher for the SC-19 was repeatedly detected on the Songlin pad, according to American officials familiar with the classified reports. “Their proposals were always aimed at American space-based systems and always excluded a ground-based, pop-up antisatellite weapon such as theirs. “Then it goes up on the stage to do technical rehearsal, and there’s a period of three weeks for a show like this, and you lose touch entirely. Later, audience members would clarify some of the shortcomings in the story, overheard in the lobby asking what was happening in a particular scene or why the main character had done this or that. Critics would echo their concerns, with The Chicago Tribune calling it “far from ship-shape,” though several reviews said it was salvageable with a substantial reworking. Schönberg on “Miss Saigon” and came to opening night in Chicago, not, he insisted, at an invitation to be a show doctor, but as a curious acquaintance who happened to be in town. Lewis of the New America Foundation said that the United States might have persuaded the Chinese to defer the test, short of meeting their demand for a ban on space weapons. I don’t think we could have talked them out of testing against a target.” And then,” she said, making a face of pained disappointment, “you go, ‘Oh.’ ”
If it’s opening night in New York, the adage goes, you lie your head off; out of town you stick to cold truth. But while everyone had decided that the storytelling was unclear, it wasn’t the only problem. Galati asked the producers to bring in Graciela Daniele to rework the musical staging.
Dendy left two weeks after the Chicago opening. Changes to the production continued during the long, sleepless weeks of rehearsals and previews in New York.
After a Chinese interceptor smashed into a target satellite in January, Bush administration officials criticized the test as a destabilizing development. The events show that the administration felt constrained in its dealings with China because of its view that it had little leverage to stop an important Chinese military program, and because it did not want to let Beijing know how much the United States knew about its space launching activities. “I think it is fair to say that nobody knows whether the Chinese would have deferred or canceled the test,” the administration official added. “The principals’ best judgment, including the leadership of the intelligence community, was that they were committed to testing the antisatellite weapon.” But same experts outside government say that American officials might have been able to discourage the Chinese from launching the missile, had the officials been willing to enter into a broader discussion of ways to regulate the military competition in space. I don’t think we could have talked them out of testing against a target.” The Bush administration is hoping that the diplomatic protests that it and other nations lodged after the SC-19 test will dissuade the Chinese from conducting additional tests.
Lewis of the New America Foundation said that the United States might have persuaded the Chinese to defer the test, short of meeting their demand for a ban on space weapons. General Pace, however, had little luck in discussing China’s antisatellite program during a visit to China last month. And then,” she said, making a face of pained disappointment, “you go, ‘Oh.’ ”
“With most shows it’s very hard to define what the problem is,” Mr. Maltby wrote in his conclusion, “partly because I’m fond of you and Claude-Michel, but it’s even more because I think that you have a really great musical here, potentially, if it can just be unlocked and released.”

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