Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forum will be held in the auditorium of the Rindge Technical High School, Broadway and Irving Streets, Cambridge. Tickets are available by mail from the Law school Forum at 23 Everett Street...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Grace Kelly) and cynical Director William Holden (TIME...
...right there on the front page. Then, for good measure, supplement the jokes about businessmen moved to Washington and press sensationalism with a few vaudeville routines and technical novelties, and the rave reviews are as good as written. You play is sure to run at least a year on Broadway--and perhaps two, if your technique is as polished as that of Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman, authors of The Solid Gold Cadillac...
Sprinkled among the first-nighters there will be a few people, however, watching the play with a theatrical sort of morbid curiosity. These few will have come not so much to see a new hit as to see exactly what ails a show that has twice postponed its Broadway opening, has experienced extensive revisions during a full twelve weeks of try outs, and has been formally disowned by the man still billed as it co-author, Silk Stockings, despite its big names and its tremendous $850,000 advance sale, has had more trouble to date than virtually any other musical...
...show's main problems have not, however, arisen from bad critical notices not yet, at any rate. Critics in such "try-out towns" as Philadelphia, Boston, and Detroit, the three cities where Silk Stockings has played to far, habitually write with one eye on Broadway; thus they hesitate to pan any show that seems even remotely capable of becoming a hit. Most of the pre-opening reviews of Silk Stockings, accordingly, have pointed out serious flaws in the production but refrained from condemning it as a whole. The play seems "jaded and faded and old and cold," said Cyras Durgin...