Daily News from New York, New York • 156

Arthur Schwartz1 Diary of a Food Critic p.3 City Stuff Sunday walking tours of the city I pa Claudia: Engie's 14 new high-priced gowns p.5 Daily News. Friday. April 10. 1991 i mmii IVlkmiliiiiiiGUlL is. TT9 enaiaM-- iuHiTii 5 I JFim I AVOY 1 Pleasure Dome for Grown-up Elotkcrs 1 3 2.

lamiia i 1 in 1 If --lie 1 1 WHAT DOES IT take to redeem the city's oldest Broadway theater from 15 years of porn flickerings and malign neglect and transform it into the'poshest new pop music emporium in Manhattan? Nothing but three years' wheeling and dealing, six months' reconstruction, a staff of 80, $1.4 million, and one man with a plan. The man is Ron Delsener and he's spent the last 16 years presenting over 200 concerts annually at Carnegie Hail, Madison Square Garden, the Nassau Coliseum, Radio City Music Hall, the Palladium and Central Park, all while earning music industry acclaim as one of the top concert promoters in the country. But lately the winds of change have chilled the concert scene as they have Continued on page 2 I If I. it s. 'tis.

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