Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silver spoon in its mouth. First of all, it's a faithful version of Garson Kanin's play, almost line for line. It has an excellent cast, one which for a change, seems to understand words. And it has Judy Holiday, who played Billie Dawn for years on Broadway. Miss Holliday alone would be enough...
...Green Pastures" has come out of retirement, after almost 19 years, and this production makes one wonder why New Yorkers let it leave Broadway in the first place. It is comic, dramatic, compassionate, and sometimes tragic. And it is something more. Perhaps that is why playwright Marc Connelly calls it a "fable," rather than a play...
...Mikado (book & lyrics by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; produced by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company) ushers in yet another D'Oyly Carte visit to Broadway. In a sense, it is always the same visit, as full of tradition and ritual as though the visiting players were visiting royalty. It even seems to fetch the same audiences of devotees. The extravaganzas that once turned Victorian sanity upside down today seem one of the few things still on their feet. Titipu still flourishes, Barataria still stands...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up after a little coaching, Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter George Sanders (TIME...