Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mutation mink and choked with pearls; star-sapphire pinkie rings glinted whenever their silk-suited owners shot their cuffs. Even "Uncle Miltie'' Berle was impressed. Onstage last week, he bared the bright new caps on his teeth, leered at the enormous room, and delivered a typically backhanded Broadway compliment: "You think this is something? Next year they're going to build an indoor mountain...
...money, big-bill payers demand big-name stars of Broadway and TV. So the Concord shells out $6,500 for one night of Berle; the G imports Pat Suzuki, Robert Merrill, George Jessel (its smaller nightclub keeps its budget down to $2,000 for individual acts). There are some 50 hotels in the Belt, and top entertainers-Georgia Gibbs, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Martin, Red Buttons-make the rounds. Says Comedian Gene Baylos, who is spending the summer playing the Belt: "You're facing the toughest audience. They become connoisseurs, and they're very critical. Hell, they...
...that yours is the most moving and truly poetic Macbeth I have ever known." When the play was finished, apart from critics who claimed to miss polish and high oratorical style, the cheering audience was willing to go Siobhan one better. The response suggested that the production (headed for Broadway in the fall) may be one of the most spectacular Shakespearean shows yet seen...
...actually little more than a reminder from a couple of real pros that the old adage "there's no business like show business" has some foundation. But it is amazing how much more sophisticated, well-constructed, and entertaining this thirty-year-old piece is than the comparable Broadway material of today...
With Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, the Boston Summer Playhouse brings us their finest production to date. Originally presented on Broadway in 1955 as the major part of a double bill, this powerful story about the complex intrafamilial relationships in a Brooklyn waterfront household provides a jolting theatrical experience...