Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complaining Angel was a "harder ticket" than Broadway's My Fair Lady-only nuns were admitted to its three performances, staged as a training project by the department of speech for the summer school that annually brings some 800 teaching sisters to Notre Dame. "You can't teach a skill if you have never mastered it," explains Drama Teacher Natalie White, who wrote and directed the show. It is her third such sister act, but her first musical, and it was a hearty success. The nuns in the cast wore no makeup and wore their habits throughout...
...King and I. A lavish and bouncy musical version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, expertly played by Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...
...charmed a pretty brunette French teacher and accomplished skier named Collette Thomas into marriage. They lived in "a series of ghastly, sordid rooms and flats," while he scrabbled up the drawing-room-comedy ladder. Then in 1936 he made his Broadway debut in Sweet Aloes and hit the top. Back in London he starred in French Without Tears, Design for Living, No Time for Comedy. Then, to "get a bit of money," Harrison temporarily left the stage for movies (a medium he dislikes), met George Bernard Shaw himself in the course of making Major Barbara...
Back to the Boards. The Harrisons got out of Hollywood in a hurry. Luckily, Harrison had already signed to play Henry VIII in a Broadway production of Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days. He flung his skinny frame into the heavily padded king's role so frantically that once during rehearsals he had to be hospitalized. An X ray showed his stomach clenched into fist-size; Harrison claims the hospital is still displaying the plates as an example of what nervous tension...
...King and I. A lavish and bouncy musical version in CinemaScope 55 and De Luxe color of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit. expertly played by Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...