Word: bancrofts
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...Bancroft Press...
...idea so commercially shrewd and creatively dubious that you naturally assume it came from an American. But it was British playwright and director Terry Johnson (Dead Funny; Hysteria) who decided to take Mike Nichols' 1967 film The Graduate and put it onstage. With Kathleen Turner re-creating Anne Bancroft's role as Mrs. Robinson, the show weathered mixed reviews to become a box-office hit in London. Now it has come to Broadway, with Turner joined by a couple of young Hollywood stars, Jason Biggs and Alicia Silverstone. The show serves up the familiar story of a directionless college grad...
...HERBERT ROSS, 74, choreographer turned film director who collaborated with Neil Simon on five films; in New York City. He jump-started the career of Barbra Streisand in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale and, in 1977, got Oscar-nominated performances out of Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine in Turning Point and Marsha Mason in The Goodbye Girl...
Though he has played drums since age 9, Brooks has little musical training. Yet he had written songs for most of his movies, and he got a major nudge from his wife Anne Bancroft. "She always loved my songs," he says. "She thought it was a really big part of my work that was not cultivated. She said, 'You have to write this score. It's your next great challenge. It will keep you young...
...Shelly Bancroft, who curated the show, says that she wanted "to do a show that's not ironic about beauty...to establish some criteria that would be objective and also allow subjectivity to come into play." Perhaps the universal character is to be found in the variable connections most of the pieces make with naturalism. Views out of windows onto snow-laden trees, seagulls in blue skies and golden-brown seascapes offer images that arrest the eye, full of kinesthetic suggestion and opportunity for sensation...