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ARTIEXHIBIJ MILES DAVIS OTHER WORKS The great jazzman was a self-taught painter among other things NEWSY A R'SSDAY THE ALTERNATIVE IS Yes there are things to do if you don't want to drink or watch football all day pw IlNlDlElX NEWS: 2-31 105-107 Murray Kempton 11 Officials hope Beauty and the Beast can help beautify a beastly neighborhood TV LISTINGS: 8-91 CLASSIFIED: 108-117 SPORTS: IIS-144 Bob Glauber 140 Tim Layden 143 High Schools 126 128 Racing 119120 Scoreboard '121-123 Death Notices 106 Obituaries 105 BUSINESS: 37-45 Stock Charts 42 Ticker 40 EDITORIAL 4S VIEWPOINTS: 48 97 Sydney Schanberg 97 Letters 97 PART 2: 53-92 Ann Landers 83 Dear Abby 88 Fun Comics 84-86 Horoscopes 85 1ME METi0f0lUlRlR EA Tomorrow is New Yeark Day There will be no mail delivery except for delivery and Express Mail Post offices will be dosed except fir General Post Office at Eighth Avenue and 33 rd Street and the Morgan General Mail Facility at 341 Ninth Ave Banks will be dosed as will all city and state offices in New York City and most courts Sunday parking rules will be in effect There will be no garbage or recycling collections or street cleaning Subways and buses will operate on a normal Saturday schedule New York Nowaday will publish as usual Lamids i Deal seen for 42nd St theater ClOlRlRlEjClTlHOiM Due to an editing error the meaning of part of an opinion artide from Michael Manddbaum published Wednesday was changed incorrectly The paragraph should haws read: To stop the terror will require a reversal of one of the fundamental tenets of Palestinian politics Arafat his associates and the Palestinians in the territories won by Israel in 1967 have battled against Israrik army and security services Now they will have to cooperate with both against groups radicals within the PLO and Islamic fundamentalists with which they were previously allied A photograph of Chelsea Clinton that was cut into pieces fix a puzzle an Wednesdays Student Briefing Ifege was taken fay Allan Tsnnenbaum of the Sygma photo agency The credit was omitted I DEW TORI nek 10: 6 13 14 15 19 25 28 29 32 42 44 46 54 56 58 62 67 68 71 72 Daily laj 699 Via Faar 4907 Wadaasdays Lattac 1 21 26 31 36 42 Supp: 54 Teasdays Taka Fisa: 2 3 5 11 14 NEW JERSEY Hck 3: 71L Pick 4: 7026l Lena 1 5 26 28 35 4a Bonus No: 34721 CONNECTICUT Dally Raj 95a Play 4: 646a Far NTS Lsttary results eaN 1-D00-422-CSS6 writk a taaefc taae Today: Mixed sun and clouds 36 Haw Tsar's Day: Fkrtly sunny then increasing clouds 45l Sunday: A mix of sun and clouds 37 Msaday Sunshine then increasing clouds 35 Taesday: Chance of snow 33l Map Pays IIS By Karen Rothmyer STAFF WHITES Forty-Second Street appears about to be touched by the magic wand of a faiiy godfather named Watt Disney Lawyers for the Walt Disney Co and for the New York State Urban Development Corp were working yesterday to put the finishing touches on an agreement under which Disney would lease the defunct New Amsterdam Theater between Seventh and Eighth Avenues to house new musicals baaed on Disney creations The block once a vibrant entertainment district now consists almost entirely of condemned buildings that most recently housed X-rated movie theaters and cheap retail stores first stags venture and the an adaptation of its immensely popular film by the same name is playing to sellout crowds in Houston! The play is scheduled to open at the Palace Theater in New York in early ApriL Musicals are natural of entertainment activities according to Bob McTre vice president of Walt Disney Theatrical Productions a newly created entity hope it will be well received and if it is we hope to do McTyra said need to go to New York and be well received to have credibility After that you can go around the country and internationally" McTtyre said ticket prices for the new Disney show which cost an estimated $8 million to $10 million to produce will be in line with those of other musicals $65 fin the most expensive seat economics dictate the pricing and recouping your investment takes a long he said "Yes business but most things in the ee Michael area an McTyre declined to discuss the details of the New Amsterdam agreement be-1 fore it was signed However last month Disney Chairman Michael Eisner told 1 the Houston Chronicle that if the revitalization of 42nd Street works out as 1 1 planned the New Amsterdam would be used not only for stage versions of Disney films but also possibly for new shows that might later be adapted to the croon The arrival of Disney would transform the prospects for the 42nd Street block would act as a magnet" for other development one city official pro- If that were to happen ft would mark the end of years of failed governmental at- tempts to revitalise the Times Square area that aid-ed up doing little other then driving out the businesses that remained Test fall after a proposal to put up four of- fice towers fell victim to protests and the economic down- turn a city and state plan was unveiled that calls for the- aters hotels and other attractions of interest in particular to tourists City and state officials declined to the proposed terms of the Disney deal which presumably would involve somaaort of tax breaks and other Emm-InI arrangements Sources dose to the negotiations suggested that the rush to try to get the deal done' happened because same frit if it completed by the time Mayor-elect Rudolph Giuliani took office there could be a delay new theatrical venture cornea at a time when the company is finding it has less than a totally magic touch Its Euro-Disneyland theme park in France is in danger of closing be- i cause of massive lessee Eisner nI eIWIs! 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