Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once having to stop for a light. If the second act slows thing's up a bit, Guys and Dolls emerges a thoroughly good, lively, lowdown musical. Using fleece-lined tough material of Damon Runyon's, it takes a full-in-the-face but indulgent view of Broadway's cop-fleeing dice players and their dolls. What results, if not always authentic, is raffish and picturesque, and though it seems ground out here & there, at least it is freshly ground...
...Tower Beyond Tragedy (by Robinson Jeffers) is the first of ten productions that the American National Theater and Academy plans to offer on Broadway this season. What is mostly the matter with the first of their plays is that it seldom seems like a play at all. It is merely an undynamic stage treatment of Jeffers' well-known dramatic poem on the House of Atreus. Though it chronicles the matricide of Clytemnestra, the murders of Agamemnon, Aegisthus and Cassandra, and more than dabbles in adultery and incest, it is too choked by imagery ever to ignite, is too highbustedly...
...that glitters may not be gold, but there's no doubt that Cole Porter's "Out of This World" is almost entirely the genuine 24-carat stuff. The production is more of a spectacle than a musical comedy, and it is certainly more spectacular than anything Broadway has seen in a long time. Mr. Porter has reworked the ancient Amphytryon story into a fast-moving, melodious extravaganza of gods of mortals...
...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 and Celeste Holm; (TIME...
...Bakeless has worked his way through their written reports and borrowed from the best of them. His 300-year-long adventure story will give latter-day residents of the continent a green image of the days when the forests stretched nearly unbroken to the Mississippi and Manhattan's Broadway was only a tree-walled Indian trail...