Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menotti. Figuring that there are more paying customers for a Broadway show than for an opera, Producer David Merrick billed Menotti's Maria Golovin as a "musical drama," insisted that it be reviewed by drama critics, even tried to bar music critics from the theater. Producer Merrick (nicknamed "The Abominable Showman" by Broadway wags) need not have troubled. Either as drama or as music, Maria Golovin (first performed in Brussels last summer) is something of a disappointment. The plot is built on a theme that seems to have an obsessive fascination for Composer-Librettist Menotti: the maimed (in this...
...Patate on Broadway, France and the U.S. succeeded in rubbing elbows with a spectacular avoidance of funnybones. Jokes congealed, situations evaporated; Tom Ewell, as Patate, gamely struggled and sank. Perhaps more things were involved than just differing national brands of humor: matters of language and production, the speed at which light comedy travels, the split second in which a fleeting fancy can be trapped. Whatever the cause, the fun of Patate remained incommunicado throughout...
Died. Zoe Akins, 71, playwright (De-classee, The Greeks Had a Word for It), poet, novelist, screenwriter; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1935, Missouri-born Zoe Akins won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train...
Damn Yankees. The musical that played hell with the national game on Broadway gets a helluva good deal itself from Hollywood. With Dancers Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston...
THEATER On Broadway The Pleasure of His Company. Suave drawing-room comedy with a deft Cyril Ritchard as a playboy prodigal father who turns up for his daughter's wedding and turns everything around him upside down. With Cornelia Otis Skinner...