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...Among Broadway???s musical classics, South Pacific has long had a special mystique. An instant critical and popular smash when it opened in April 1949, it swept the Tony awards, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and ran for a then-extraordinary five years. For a generation of postwar theatergoers, it was cherished like almost no other American musical. In my own parents? rather sparse record collection, it was the one original cast album that got played over and over - the Broadway show music that provided the soundtrack of my childhood...
Henry, who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1980 when he was with the Boston Globe, delights in his visits to Way-Off Broadway???regional theaters where the work may lack Broadway sheen, but can be imaginative and daring. "My predecessor at TIME, Ted Kalem, used to say, 'When I go to a theater in Cleveland, they don't ask what's happening in Detroit.' Well, times have changed, and now when I go to Ashland, Ore., they do ask me what's happening in San Diego...
Even so, the custodians of the inkwell?the producers, directors and theater owners?disagree noisily over just how successful Broadway is, and what that success means. Bernard Jacobs, who with his partner Gerald Schoenfeld helped restore to grandeur the venerable Shubert Organization ?and with it much of Broadway???sees a cloud in the silver lining. "As grosses increase," says Jacobs, "so do costs. Move the decimal point over a few digits, and you're in the same place you were 54 years ago." In 1927, he notes, a straight play could be produced...
Though Sesame Street's studio is modestan old movie theater on Manhattan's upper Broadway??the budget is an impressive $28,000 per show. Yet because of its wide popularity, the switched-on school reaches its audience at a cost of about a penny per child; "a bargain," says Dr. Benjamin Spock, "if I ever...
...BROADWAY???The oldest entertainment consecutively at home in Manhattan. Dancers, thugs, guns. (TIME, Sept...