Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Versatile Enigma. Balanchine, all but idolized by his pupils, old and new, remains an enigma and a system of paradoxes to most of them. He turns down an average of a dozen rich offers a year from Broadway and TV nowadays to go on working for the New York Ballet-where he takes no salary. He is satisfied with his income from the royalties (some $200 a week during a season) and occasional fees for outside commissions...
...snowy night last week. Manhattan's top drama critics sloshed down to Greenwich Village to see what is commonly called an "off-Broadway" play-a designation which usually means that nobody has been hopeful enough about the play's chances to invest the $80,000 or $90,000 needed to mount the production on Broadway. This time, the critics found their journey rewarding...
...studied at the Yale School of Drama for a year, finally left to buck Broadway...
Mademoiselle Colombe (adapted by Louis Kronenberger-from the French of Jean Anouilh) is an amorality play written in Gallic terms, i.e., the playwright never reveals whom he is rooting for. This has proved dismaying to Broadway audiences in the past because, though relishing a good fight between right and wrong, U.S. playgoers prefer to know which is which. Opposed in the turn-of-the-century plot are Eli Wallach, a young man top-heavy with virtue, and his wife Julie Harris, who cannot see why he must do everything the hard way when the easy way is so much more...
...Hers (by Fay & Michael Kanin) uses a comic framework as neat and narrow as a coffin. Written by a pair of playwrights who are married, it concerns a pair who are divorced (after two Broadway failures). In a freak legal wrangle, because they have both thought up a play with the same plot, they get a court order to write it together. Propinquity makes hearts grow fonder, and they decide, if the new play clicks, to remarry. Then they decide that love outweighs success. and to remarry whatever happens...