Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FLESH & BLOOD (NBC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Arthur Penn produces and directs William Hanley's play, originally scheduled for Broadway last year but bought by NBC for a TV première. It's all about a close-knit contemporary American family whose members discover they don't really know each other. Starring Edmond O'Brien, E. G. Marshall, Kim Stanley and Suzanne Pleshette...
...some plays had fuel gauges attached to them, their needles would indicate half full. The full half of Staircase, which opened on Broadway last week, contains uncompromisingly fine acting by the two-man cast, Eli Wallach and Milo O'Shea, and a decent quota of amusing though not wildly funny lines. The empty half consists of scanty action, no character development, and a drowsy repetitiveness that comes from distending a potentially compact one-acter into a full-length play. The comedy concerns two aging homosexual barbers and is unlikely to offend any one, except possibly barbers...
Skittering about the stage in mock retreat, Marian Seldes is awkward, angular, sexy-and touchingly vulnerable. She gives the finest feminine performance on Broadway. A graduate of Chicago's Second City Troupe, Troobnick brings to the play an improvisatory skill in portraying the contemporary personality who changes views, looks, and even voice in a matter of seconds...
...character man-woman play is now a Broadway staple. Lawrence Holofcener's Before You Go ranks with Two for the Seesaw and The Owl and the Pussycat as the best of the genre. Wry, perceptive, honest, sad, funny and tender, it is compassionately discerning about two people who are not quite wise to themselves...
...caper began last winter, when Mailer's play The Deer Park was running off-Broadway. Mailer and a few of the actors got into the habit of boozing together in a Greenwich Village restaurant after performances. As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend. They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves names-Cameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)-and they talked tough and dirty at each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large...