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Article: Variety is the spice of life. .; Ballet corps is poised to conquer Big Apple.
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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ETCHED against Birmingham's late summer skyline he could be a spaceman.
His goggles, helmet and other equipment catch the sun as he moves within a spider's web of rising steel.
A sudden spurt of flame and sparks spin and dance to the music of a fast changing city.
But there are more than sparks dancing in Hurst Street as an old theatre crumbles to dust and a new one arises. And the irony is that while the Birmingham Hippodrome is technically a theatre without a theatre it is in the process of creating a production that could be its greatest ...