Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editors of the CRIMSONS: A short time ago a great many Harvard students and professors attended the second Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture given by the Broadway and Hollywood director Elia Kazan. From the title of the lecture ("Show Business and the Realities") and from Prof. Levin's introductory remarks ("bridge the gap between drama on the page and drama on the stage"), they must have expected a firsthand account of the problems of directing and staging some of the best movies and plays of recent years. Instead they were treated to a public shrift and absolution. Interspiced with a running...
Shuffle Along (music & lyrics by Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle; book by Flournoy Miller & Paul Gerard Smith) is an almost totally different show from the one that Broadway took to its heart in 1921. Unhappily, in fact, it is not really a show at all. A ragged World War II yarn about a lively WAC widow whose husband turns out not to be dead, it shambles and stumbles along in the choking dust of old dialect gags, while the music and dancing seem to prolong the agony rather than interrupt it. From the old days, Shuffle Along has wisely retained...
...following this episode, Kazan had further experience with the fear that Communist secrecy had brought-to his field. George Tabouris, author of Kazan's recent Broadway production. "Flight Into Egypt," was almost denied a visa to the United States...
Late in December, an invitation committee first asked Kazan to appear. Broadway and Hollywood commitments prevented him from setting a definite date, however, and Kazan declined the invitation with regret...
...pinhead. "That is on the face of it absurd," retorted Nathan. " Tin-head' is a two-syllable word." The dean of U.S. drama critics has been nipping his lip at the American theater and the people in it for 46 seasons. He has outlasted the combined Broadway runs of Abie's Irish Rose, Tobacco Road and Oklahoma!-and in continuous performance. Plays have to ring down the curtain around 11 p.m.; Nathan never does...