Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kimono changes (she was equipped with ten sets) that she had little time even for window shopping. At week's end she left for Hollywood to discuss MGM's prize offer: that she play the role of Lotus Blossom opposite Marlon Brando in the film version of Broadway's Teahouse of the August Moon...
Unknown and unheralded in the U.S., French Pantomimist Marcel Marceau, 32, opened last week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...
...young theater enthusiasts to the Boston University School of Drama last week. Appearing very much at home with his horned-rimmed glasses and quiet, thoughtful manner, Arthur Miller launched into a plea for a new American Theater. Echoing the arguments of William Saroyan and others, Miller said that Broadway suffers from too much commercialism. The huge cost of producing a show, he pointed out, places an author under stifling pressure. The writer's reputation as a money maker, and therefore his future, hinges on every play that comes before the public, causing him to be cautious and afraid to experiment...
...these new works, Miller explained that he had written them at the request of a friend who had asked for a one-act play that a small, New York drama group could perform for one or two nights. Since small works of this kind were not usually done on Broadway, he agreed to finish a one-act play on which he was working and to write a second one as a curtain-raiser. In the end the plays turned out to be good enough to rank as a major attraction of the new theater season...
...catalogue the cast and the woes of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? further would be meaningless and brutal. It would be dangerous to predict that the play will draw no audiences on Broadway, but it certainly will not be spoiled by success. There is noting to spoil...