Word: broadway
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Twelfth Night is becoming the busiest musical off Broadway. It opened (and closed) this month in the form of a sad travesty called Love and Let Love. Last week it was back as a romping delight called Your Own Thing, which does for the kids of the '60s, with their sexual hang-ups and his-and-her looks, something of what West Side Story-alias Romeo and Juliet-did for the rumbling teen-age groups of the '50s. In Your Own Thing, Shakespeare has had the services of a brilliant collaborator from Portland, Ore. Writer-Director Donald Driver...
...clumsy Broadway adaptation by Mrs. Jay Allen of a Muriel Spark novel, the drama focuses on the havoc created by an invincibly dedicated teacher who stimulates the imaginations of adolescent girls with her own feverish fantasies of love and life. "I put old heads on young shoulders," Miss
Brubeck is already at work on two more oratorios as well as on a number of projects "around the house," including a Broadway musical and a string quartet. From all appearances, Serious Composer David Brubeck may, indeed, be as busy in the future as Jazzman Dave was in the past...
Died. Bert Wheeler, 72, vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood comedian; of emphysema; in Manhattan. Gifted with a rubberized grin, a quavering voice, and a talent for leaking torrents of tears on cue, Wheeler was a comic fixture ever since 1911 when he played in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes from Broadway. He went on to the Ziegfeld Follies, then to Hollywood, where he teamed with the late Robert Woolsey in some 30 comedies...
...sleazy theatrical producer (Zero Mostel) enlists the aid of his wide-eyed accountant (Gene Wilder) in a convoluted cabal. Given the improper circumstances, a Broadway entrepreneur can make more from a flop than he can from a hit-by pocketing the backers' money after the show folds. Accordingly, the two men begin a search for the world's worst script. Mostel finally zeroes in on Springtime for Hitler, written by an unrepentant Nazi who believes that the Führer was infinitely superior to Churchill because he had more hair and besides, he was a better painter...