INSPIRING IMPRESARIO

Your interview with theater impresario Garth Drabinsky was inspiring (“He Just Keeps Rolling Along,” by Craig Turner, Nov. 10).

While those in the theater community might not always agree with his modus operandi, all of us must applaud his commitment to live theater, welcome his enthusiasm for innovation, support his quest for quality and thank him for his ongoing concern for the theater as experienced by the ticket-, T-shirt-, popcorn-, CD-, soft drink-buying public--without whom live theater could not thrive.

If only theater operators would follow in his footsteps, then they too could enjoy the success of Drabinsky and his like-minded followers . . . Disney.

GARRY C. KIEF

Marina del Rey