Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public at Harvard? I assure you it numbers less than one thousand--except, of course, for Shakespeare. Will originals draw this public? Considering "The General," presented by the now-defunct Harvard Theatre Group last spring, they will not. Here was a thoughtful play by the co-author of a Broadway production which was by all accounts an artistic success. It had its world premiere in the thinking community of its birth. Yet it was a huge financial failure. We simply cannot take this risk...
Backbone of America is a comedy containing such familiar Broadway ingredients as the hard-as-nails career girl (actually, she is soft as butter inside), the aspiring author who must write advertising copy instead of novels, and a country bumpkin who proves to have more intelligence and integrity than the city slickers. Along the way. Sherwood pokes some gentle fun at television itself and at the giveaway psychology of U.S. advertising...
Kismet (Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow and other members of the original cast; Columbia LP). A musical précis of the current Broadway idea of an Arabian night, featuring such popular songs as Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Stranger in Paradise and a couple of deft patter numbers. The music was culled from the work of Alexander Borodin, the 19th century Russian composer, by Robert Wright and George Forrest...
Died. Lee ("Mister Lee") Shubert, 78, president of Shubert Theater Corp., iron-fisted producer-landlord of the U.S. legitimate stage; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. With his brothers, Jacob ("J.J.") and Sam, Lee Shubert descended on Broadway from Syracuse, N.Y. in 1900, by the end of the booming '20s controlled an estimated $400 million in theatrical real estate. Working 15 hours a day, he survived both the Depression and the influx of movies, remorselessly squeezed out potential competitors. No man for publicity, he kept his 1936 marriage to Showgirl Marcella Swanson a secret for twelve years (until...
Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox). Ethel Merman's wonderful brassy voice and personality sparkplug the film version of her Broadway musical hit (TIME, March...