Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This beat-generation soap opera is strung together with a brassy and banal score by Composer Michel Magne, dressed in sets by Painter Bernard Buffet, and choreographed (by Americans John Taras and Don Lurio) for the most part like a Broadway musical. Visually (and for the box office), its handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene...
...counter improves their chances of seeing such S.R.O. hits as My Fair Lady and The Music Man. As vulnerable as any to the gouging charges are Manhattan's 100-odd ticket agencies, which handle roughly 65% of theater seat sales for a legitimate fee of $1.38 above the box-office price...
...letter from a lady who found a box of letters in the trunk of her husband's car. I pray every night that she will take your advice, because I am that woman. If this woman who found my letters will destroy the letters without telling my husband. I promise never to see her husband again...
Please ask that woman who found the box of love letters in her husband's car how much she will take for them. I am sure this concerns me. WILLING TO BUY Dear Abby...
...front office decided they had something special, and announced that the show would open like a Broadway play-white tie and hard ticket. The public seemed to like the idea. Despite advanced prices ($3 top), more than $40,000 worth of tickets were mail-ordered before the box office opened...