Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THEATER New Revue in Manhattan Catch a Star! (music by an and Phil Chang; lyrics by Paul Webster and Ray Golden; sketches by Dannyand Neil Simon) got the new Broadway season off to a respectable but unexciting start. Perhaps half its numbers have at least their pleasant moments- a far from disgraceful average for revues, but a dubious recommendation for audiences...
Barring Veteran Comic David Burns the cast is young, night-spotty, and largely new to Broadway, Pat Carroll, Jack Wakefield, Helen Halpin and Elaine Dunn should all have Broadway futures, but at the moment they can only enhance good material; they cannot save bad. What with undistinguished numbers and indistinguishable songs, a long-winded ballad about a killer and a dreadful adaptation of O Henry's Gift of the Magi, Catch a Mar! only intermittently catches...
With a blare of trumpets, a glitter of sequins and an outburst of romantic candles, television's most Spectacular season opened last week. NBC pronounced the summer prematurely over and raised the curtain on a season of high promise with a 90-minute version of the 1943 Broadway musical, One Touch of Venus. Janet Blair had the tiptoe grace required of a goddess awakened after slumbering for thousands of years in marble; Kurt Weill's pleasant music occasionally gave the show levitation; Russell Nype and George Gaynes struggled bravely against the shackling grasp of the heavyhanded plot...
...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship; with Henry Fonda, James Cagney (TIME, July...
...years later the three buddies reunite in their favorite saloon and are shocked to find that their boozy camaraderie of yore is dead as yesterday's glass of beer. Their strained efforts to rekindle brotherly love first produce boredom, then brotherly loathing. Kelly has degenerated into a Broadway fast-buck man who manages a double-dealing prizefighter; Dailey has overblown himself into a slobbish, ulcer-ridden TV idea man; Kidd, the papa of five of them, runs a crummy Schenectady diner specializing in "Cordon Blue" hamburgers...