Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway...
...over SAC headquarters at Omaha, flown H-bomb patrol over Alaska, eyewitnessed moon shots at Cape Canaveral, studied the lot of the Manhattan chairwoman, tuned in on Beat-Generation talk in San Francisco. London Sunday Times Reporter Kenneth Pearson flew over to file a three-part series on the Broadway musical, West Side Story-inspiring the London Daily Express to fly the West Side troupe to London for a night...
...reviews, The World of Suzie Wong is sitting pretty, with 282 parties. Chances are that Rodgers' & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song will be a hit anyway, but parties already account for $700,000 in advance sales. In fact, it is so hard for ordinary customers to get Broadway tickets that R. & H. have called a halt to further parties. Complains Renée Schonceit, one of Broadway's top ticket brokers: "Why, for Marriage-Go-Round, we can't get people tickets to the men's room; they've all gone to theater parties...
Last week Lenore Tobin, one of twelve agents who handle charity bookings (for a 6% commission) was doing a land-office business with every musical headed for Broadway. But for Daarlin' Man, response was spotty ("Can you imagine a Jewish organization going to an Irish play?"). Pleadingly, she tried to sell Tennessee Williams' forthcoming Sweet Bird of Youth: "No, I really don't think Williams is so morbid. A bit sexy, maybe. And it's got Paul Newman. Wouldn't you like an early night?" The charity man wanted none of it, leaving one night...
Wonderful Town (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Nearly two years on Broadway rate two hours on TV, and Rosalind Russell rates cheers as the heroine of this musical version of My Sister Eileen; with most of the original cast...