Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brattle players were an ambitious arrogant group. They scorned outside actors who joined their casts, and tolerated cheering audiences. During the four bright years they stirred the theatrical world with their Shakespeare and Shaw, they were constantly pointing toward the bright lights of Broadway and, at the same time verbally damning its commercialism...
...director Albert Marre declared "The best hope for serious theatre in American lies in important plays being produced well, far away from the prohibitive and stifling costs of Broadway." Marre is now an assistant director at the New York City Center. The other members of the original Harvard Veterans Workshop, which formed the Brattle, have also left for the Broadways of New York, London, Chicago, and San Francisco...
Before the Brattle's last performance, Moliere's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, one could see the difference in attitude between the old Brattle the company and those who were there for this play alone. Zero Mostel, a Broadway and Holly wood comedian, was the featured performer, and he was enthusiastic about the theatre and angered that it had never gotten outside financial support...
...costumes. Their theatre presented technical difficulties: there was no fly gallery or wing space, only a tremendous 38 foot depth. And they had to fit their productions of these limitations. It was a difficult life, especially for intelligent and actors drawing huge salaries on radio, television and in Broadway theatre...
...entire attack sequence runs without spoken narration or sound effects; the Rodgers score comments on the situation far more effectively than words could. A new sort of musical language was developed for the series. Broadway Arranger Robert Russell Bennett, who orchestrated the score and conducted the NBC Symphony's first-rate performance, gives an example: "All airplanes fly in F minor...