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The Salt Lake Tribune ion Donny Osmond: Show A New Chapter In His Life ri audiences dwindled, and irls’ screams werenot asloud @ Continued from D-1 anymore. His solo records stiffed He starred ina Broadway musical, “Litue Johnny Jones,” that Osmond’s candor in recounting the more painful chapters of his life. Behind the { hearing loss. From 1976 to The Donny and Marie beamed its cornball cha living roomsthrough: out the nation, makingits teen-age stars the youngesthostsofa vari ety sh « in prime-time history Osmond’scareerstalled ARTS received poor reviews andclosed after one performance. It would get worse. Saddled with a huge payroll and facing shrinking revenues from its Orem studios, the Osmond-family em pirecollapsed in 1982. New Wave music ruledthe radio, and while Mariefoundsuccess on the country charts, Donnycould not get a record deal. Music executives said they loved his voice but could not sel his squeakyagi tt sateen gy ii Sunday, June 20, 1999 Michael Jackson told him, “Changeyour name. Your nameis poison.” of scandalto shed his square per- been. It just did not make any and rarely smiled for publicity photos. He almost abandoned his singing career to open a home- “People wrote meoff as a has. senseto me howI couldbe popular one minute and loathed the other,” he says. “From that nightonstage in Chicago, when I wasjust 6, the audience had always been there for me. Now, I wondered, where had everyone gone?” Osmondtried everything short became a No.2 hit after a New York radio station played it re- sona. He grewhis hair, wore a leather jacket and a_ nearpermanentfive o'clock shadow, peatedly as a newsong bya “mys- teryartist.” But Osmond’s career was nottruly reborn until 1992, whenhereluctantly took the lead role in a Toronto production of security business.In 1991, he won twocelebritycar races andbriefly considered joining the “Joseph,” the Andrew Lloyd Web- ber musical. Reviews were good, audiences profes- sionalracingcircuit. He had fleeting comeback in 1989 with “Soldier of Love,” which were enthusiastic and “Joseph” See Next Page high-wattage sntile was an insecure perfection: isttwho was devastated whenthe inevitable Osmond backlash ren defed himnearly unemployable in chronicles his ay show, his COMPANY family’ near-bankruptcy and mdst significant his recent bat tle; with an anxiety disorderthat nearly endedhis career I don’t think the public really knpws the true Donny Osmond. They know what they've read in ines and seen on TV. But real Donny Osmondhas never OUR G ANG comeout. I've always suppressed that side of my life, thinking I had tomaintain certain image.” he THE ZOODOO VOODOO FOLLIES says by phone from the “Donny & Call now Marie" “studio in Hollywood ay. ‘Forget the image. Let's betreal.’ Fans have written to me, particidarly since the television Written & Directed By Allen Nevins & Nancy Borgenicht Our 1999 Summer Season show bas come on the air, and they say, ‘You can't say that! You can’t June 24 September 4 dozthat! Donny Osmond wouldn't OPENS JUNE 23 A Midsummer Night’s Dream * King Lear do-that!’ Well, how do they know? Ndbody really knows what I'm Troilus and Cressida * Damn Yankees TheLion in Winter * You Never Can Tell like and what I've beenthroughin my life. Jt has been more than 35 years ince Osmond first sang “Yes, Sir. 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