Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Separate Tables (by Terence Rattigan) brings quicksilver to a Broadway season still lacking in blood. A big London hit, Separate Tables is as much stunt as drama in effect, as much production as play in appeal. The author of The Winslow Boy and 0 Mistress Mine has written two short plays with a shared background -a small, drab, English seaside hotel-and a recurrent roster of guests. In passing from one play to the other, only the two leading players, Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman-and they vary garishly-have new roles...
Richard II brought London's Old Vic to Broadway after a ten-year absence. In 1946, with Laurence Olivier's Oedipus and to some degree Ralph Richardson's Falstaff, it provided some of the supreme theater memories of its time. During its present stay, the Old Vic must attempt new victories; for Broadway, it is a cast of unknown names, except for cinema's Claire Bloom...
...outset, in particular to a Broadway nourished on Maurice Evans' musically wistful Richard, he seemed psychologically adventurous. He stressed the real selfishness and womanishness in so self-consciously royal, but wholly unkingly, a figure; he showed the spindly weakness behind what Coleridge called Richard's "wordy courage." But Actor Neville failed to deepen or sustain the role. It was not just that by wallowing in self-pity he never seemed pitiful; that might argue severity of purpose in an actor. Unhappily, he never seemed sick, or contemptible, or tragic either. He merely seemed elaborate. He turned rhetoric into...
...past few years the Players have done $5,000 productions of Broadway musicals in the spring, not primarily for their intrinsic value, but simply because they are proved money-makers. Whereas Shakespeare faces a small audience in the University's mammoth Irvine Auditorium, Kiss Me Kate plays to a full house...
Last week, as the 1957 Broadway season began picking up steam, Manhattan's scalpers never had it so good. Not only was My Fair Lady still going strong and bringing at least $60 a pair for tickets v. $26 a pair for The Most Happy Fella and $20 for Damn Yankees, but a whole series of surefire new hits were on the way. Opening next week, Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, has a million-dollar advance sale, is virtually sold out through March. Bells Are Ringing, with Judy Holliday, has rave out-of-town notices...