Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed to discover, upon reading your spread on Flower Drum Song, that in those many thousands of words devoted to the evolution of this Broadway success no mention was made of Mr. C. Y. Lee, the author of the book upon which the show was based...
...humor, as when the two men boozily dream of raising buffalo (a "dignified beast") to rent out to producers of TV westerns. And if the play was a surprise to Miami theatergoers (who may be the only ones to see it; Williams is still undecided about taking it to Broadway), in its own way it was a revelation to the author. For the first time Playwright Williams decided to take a crack at directing his own work, gave up the reins midway through rehearsals when he concluded sadly: "I can't direct my way out of a paper...
...last week along Manhattan's West 52nd Street in front of the ANTA Theater, which houses neither a fluffy comedy nor a roaring musical, but a somber, free-verse reworking of the Book of Job. Poet Archibald MacLeish's J.B. (TIME, Dec. 22) was booked onto Broadway with scant attention from theater-party givers and a skimpy advance sale of $46,000. On top of that it ran into the truly Jobian trial of New York's newspaper strike, which muffled the critics' unanimous raves. Yet when news about J.B. did spread, via TV, radio...
...fruits of humanity-as plucked from the tree of American life by such as Eugene O'Neill, Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author of last season's Broadway near miss, Blue Denim) might seem to have arrived in the twisted-apple orchard a decade too late. But in the seven short stories of this collection, he shows a talent that is not only twisted but robust, humorous and original as well...
...sidelines, the Modern Language Association listed only four Broadway shows as "highly recommended" for the 5,000 college teachers attending the organization's annual convention during the vacation. J.B. shared this endorsement with Touch of the Poet, Two for the Seesaw, and West Side Story...