Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plenty of men and women come to Broadway bearing checkbooks. Bumptious or diffident, they hover on the fringe for a season or two. They go over the bumps and to the cleaners and back to their natural habitat, taking with them some deductible losses and dinner conversation. Roger Stevens
...Rodgers and Hammerstein will be able to pay the fuel bill this winter, with Flower Drum Song, sold out for all 4½ weeks of its Boston tryout. Advance sale in New York a month before the Broadway opening: a reported $1,000,000 plus...
...Broadway is an unhealthy place, in the opinion of Producer Manning Gurian, because of the fallout from all those theatrical A-bombs. Knowing the pain of Broadway radiation burns (in 1948 he brought Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke into Manhattan after a triumphant three-week road tryout only to see Summer go up in smoke), he has devised a classically simple defense: get out of town. His invaluable asset: a wife named Julie Harris...
...Last week after having read more than 400 scripts, Actress Harris opened to warm reviews in Wilmington, Dela. in her husband's production of The Warm Peninsula, an impish tale of a good little Milwaukee girl's search for glamour in Miami. Before even getting near Broadway, Peninsula will live out of its trunks for a full year, is booked to play in 19 U.S. cities...
Patate (adapted by Irwin Shaw from the French of Marcel Achard) was a big Paris hit, though nothing in the quickly folding Broadway version seemed to link it with Paris at all. It is a tale of two men, a heel who has grown rich and his down-at-heel patate or fall guy. When Patate learns that the heel has become his adopted daughter's lover, he at last has a chance to even up the score; but as top dog, he proves the worst flop...