Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tickets to such Broadway hit musicals as South Pacific, Guys and Dolls and Call Me Madam are still harder to get than rush-hour seats in the Manhattan subways. But, for roughly the price of a ticket, a theater fan anywhere can hear the shows tunes just as they sound from the stage without stirring from the living-room sofa...
...years, original-cast recordings of Broadway scores have boomed into big business by appealing to 1) those who cannot see the shows, and 2) theatergoers who want something more than a playbill to remember them by. Columbia Records has sold 980,000 copies of South Pacific (at from $4.85 to $8.87 an album) for about $6,500,000. The Broadway show itself has grossed less than $5,000,000. Decca's 1943 Oklahoma!, still going strong, heads the bestseller list at over 1,000,000 copies, and its new Guys and Dolls is selling faster than Oklahoma...
Nine o'clock: English 160 is under new management, but it still offers a good range of modern English and American dramatists. Mr. Chapman, whose play, "Billy Budd," is in the process of opening on Broadway, has taken over for Baker and will hold forth in the Large Lecture Room in Fogg. Early risers of a more classical bent might prefer to drop into Emerson F and hear Professor Demos lecture on Plato in Philosophy 102. Demos' friendly lectures are just the thing for a cold morning. Others who are seeking a course to audit at this awful hour...
Call Me Mister (20th Century-Fox) salvages the title, one sketch and three songs from the 1946 Broadway hit revue that celebrated the G.I.'s exultant return to civilian life. Now that olive drab is back in style, the Technicolored cinemusical re-enlists in the Army and uses the Japanese occupation as a backdrop for songs & dances by Dan Dailey and Betty Grable, World War II's favorite pin-up girl...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty examination of some quirks and foibles of the Broadway theater; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TIME...