Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington for a pre-Manhattan run of Love and Let Love, Missouri-born Ginger Rogers told Drama Critic Richard Coe how it feels to be headed for Broadway again after 21 years and some 60-odd movies. At this stage, she said, it's "feudin' and fussin' all the time. I've never been connected with anything in the theater or movies that didn't have it ... In this case it's all very courtly-much bowing and talking about art and hand-kissing in an atmosphere that sometimes reeks with rage...
From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...
Although Shakespeare might turn over in his grave if he could see what happened to his "The Taming of the Shrew." audiences are still enjoying Cole Porter's gay musical after to years of popularity. While it was still a Broadway success, producers Saint Suber and Lemuel Ayers organized a national company of "Kiss Me Kate" and brought it to 54 cities in the United States and Canada. Now this charming bit of fantasy is back in Boston to haunt theater-goers with its hit tunes and exotic settings...
...music of some 16 songs it is hard to see how so much of the music should be so good while the lyrics are so bad. Several of the tunes are excellent; one, a comedy bit called "A Word A Day," is as clever as anything that appeared on Broadway last season, but the general level is much lower...
...deep wish to be liked by everybody. He seems genuinely surprised to be making "a king's transom." He dislikes any sort of adulation: "I don't want nobody to put me on a pedasill." And he is a notorious soft touch: in 1935 a Broadway character known as Cooney the Boom formed a moochers' syndicate which touched Jimmy for $5 a head after each night's performance of Jumbo and then kicked back 50% to Cooney...