Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operate at such different levels that they cannot. Where, in musicomedy terms, The King and I seemed truly exotic and aromatically blended fable, score and choreography into one. Flower Drum Song has no distinctive elements to blend and is never really exotic because it makes Chinatown almost indistinguishable from Broadway...
...Still boasting N.E.S.R. (not even standing room) business after packing the house for every performance since opening night 2½ years ago, My Fair Lady passed its 143rd week (1,140 performances) on Broadway to set a new sellout record for long-run shows. Oklahoma!, the former champ, missed out on some standees in its 143rd week; South Pacific had a few square feet of space in the rear of the theater after its 130th week. By year's end Lady's producers expect their books to show $10 million of gross business, a round million more than...
Backus hurtled off to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, emerged in Depression-ridden 1933 when there were only six plays on Broadway. He ate one daily meal at an actors' soup kitchen, posed for sinister pictures in True Story Magazine. After several lean years, he got steady work in radio soap operas. He soon played in three shows a day at $30 apiece, often did 25 a week...
...Broadway it got mixed reviews and died in three weeks, leaving behind it a small but fervent group of admirers, some of whom, according to The New York Times, may resuscitate it this month in another Broadway house. In any case, it has also infiltrated the bookstores. Anybody interested in the theatre, anybody who likes to read plays, would do well to have a look...
...Fair Lady in CHICAGO, Music Man in SAN FRANCISCO, Two for the Seesaw in ST. Louis, are reasonable facsimiles of the Broadway originals (see above...