Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impending demise of Repertory Boston is an unrelieved dirty shame. Its proprietors have made mistakes, perhaps, in many directions, but they put together a good group of actors, and the series of plays they presented during their brief tenure at the Wilbur were, at very least considerably more interesting than those that occupied the crowded Shubert across the street. The Repertory promised--and provided--what theatrical experts had been demanding for years: an opportunity for rich and poor and cheap and lavish and ignorant and learned alike to go to the theatre, often and conveniently, to see good plays well...
Evidently this opportunity is one thing that Bostonians and their suburban neighbors, including, perhaps, the Harvard community--almost unanimously do not want. Repertory Boston is dying of one uncomplicated ailment: box-office malnutrition. Their productions were generally well-reviewed, their theatre was well-located and commodious, their advertising was widespread, their prices were low. But nobody came...
...first match of the season last Saturday at Soldiers Field, the Harvard Cricket Club soundly defeated the West Indies Cricket Club of Greater Boston. The Crimson team piled up 137 runs for the loss of only three wickets declared, while the West Indies team compiled only 58 runs for the loss of all ten of their wickets...
...bold experiment in the American theatre ended Saturday as Repertory Boston bowed to the lack of patronage that has plagued the group since it began two months...
Repertory Boston productions, although they were often favorably reviewed, failed from the beginning to attract a sufficient audience. Frequently the mammoth Wilbur Theatre had fewer than 100 people in the house, leading to jests that often there were more people on stage than in the audience...