Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cock-a-Doodle Dandy (by Sean O'Casey) waited nine years to reach New York, and then turned up off Broadway. Written long after O'Casey's lusty, naturalistic prime, it is streaked with fantasy and symbolism. Its man-sized crowing cock is everything that Ireland, for O'Casey, is not-life-loving, joyous, free. Against his feathered friend O'Casey sets all his inveterate foes-ignorant old windbags, bullying priests, superstition-clogged rustics, tightfisted employers. Above all, a tyrannic Puritanism blasts the temptations of the flesh, makes war on warmblooded temptresses...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The So-Called Human Race, a walleyed, satirical look at psychiatry by George Panetta, whose credentials include an off-Broadway comedy called Comic Strip that nail-tough Critic Walter Kerr dismissed as "perfect...
...Broadway...
...Visit. A rich witch offers to buy the life of a man who once wronged her -for a mere billion dollars. This surrealist, symbol-clogged but fascinating fable may be Alfred Lunt's and Lynn Fontanne's last visit to Broadway...
...Fair Lady, in CHICAGO, and Music Man, in SAN FRANCISCO, reflect almost all the glories of the Broadway originals (see above...