Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of he Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...
Battered but unbowed, Prawy persisted. Finally the state-subsidized Volksoper gave Prawy the downbeat. He picked a 1949 Broadway hit, Kiss Me, Kate...
...Variety, totting up the creative blood transfusions that TV has given its sister arts, the movies and theater, found that 38 TV dramas have been sold to Hollywood and seven optioned to Broadway. Two of the dramas (Paddy Chayefsky's The Middle of the Night and N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker) are scheduled to make a clean sweep by appearing in all three places...
...stage was peopled by young, handsome, slender performers. But their Juilliard-type excellence somehow did not thrill. Baritone Theodor Uppman tried hardest and succeeded best as Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while he hit all of Sarastro's low notes, failed to be really...
...World War I-a painful punishment drill in the doorless barracks of total recall. Its author, William March, died two years ago at 60. almost unregarded-before his Bad Seed, a tale designed to prove that even children may have murder in their hearts, became a bestseller and a Broadway hit. Now TV's Alistair Cooke, U.S. correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, with a governess' concern to see that U.S. cultural toddlers are cozily wrapped, undertakes the task of explaining March to American readers. Cooke makes a sound observation: March "is wholly free from the characteristics of contemporary...