Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as on Broadway, My Fair Lady is a smash hit of the record industry. On the market for nine weeks, Columbia Records had shipped some 200,000 LP recordings of the show (list price: $4.98) by the end of last week, and orders were coming in at a joyous rate of some 10,000 a day-or at about the clip of a good-selling pop single. Equally gratifying to showfolk was the advance order for two versions, single LP and big (3 LP) album, of Broadway's latest hit musical. The Most Happy Fella, which, at more...
...touring menage of Bikini-diapered musclemen (TIME, May 21). One of Mae's big hunks, Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 32, a likable sort of Hungarian Li'l Abner, renowned in physical-culture circles as Mr. Universe (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.), had crashingly fallen for Broadway's Daisy-Mae-Westish Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield, 23, in full view of the tabloids. A stern theatrical disciplinarian, Sexagenarian West, punishing Mickey for openly airing his romance, demoted him in her show by putting him back on the biceps line. Since everything Mickey had now seemed...
Phil Silvers: "More vigorous than Hope, he even approaches the physical dynamism of Berle. More than one Broadway musical has coasted to success on the strength of his electric vitality...
...Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). The daffy Dane's one-man Broadway show reaches...
This morning at 8:45 a.m. the first bus leaves for the Essex County Club in Manchester for a day of sports and sun. Latecomers can leave as late as late as 9:30. At night, the Reunion Committee has reserved the North Shore Music Theatre for a Broadway production of "Kismet...