Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway...
...SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. Hollywood has broken the (Bobby) Morse code and come up with a pretty good reproduction of the Broadway hit musical...
...Broadway Producer Alexander Cohen, 46, loves a good bash. Once he staged a carnival in the heart of the theater district and invited half of the Eastern seaboard. "I figure," he says, "why take your wife to dinner when you can just as easily have 40 guests...
...through Broadway's annual Tony awards, which, since their inception in 1947, have been staged with all the glitter and glamour of a church supper. "Broadway deserves better," Cohen decided, and seven months ago he bought the rights to produce this year's awards show, then wooed American Airlines into sponsoring the event on network TV. Last week the new Tony-poised, polished, brimming with talent-arrived at Manhattan's Shubert Theater and, in one swinging sweep, made Emmy and Oscar look merely like tired vaudevillians...
Belt-'em-Out. Super Showman Cohen did not miss a schtick. Searchlights raked the sky; a 25-piece band blared Give My Regards to Broadway. Limousines glided up to the theater on 800 sq. yds. of red carpeting. Unlike the Emmy and Oscar awards, which grind on endlessly, honoring the best stunt man to fall off a burning building in a foreign independently produced black-andwhite wide-screen musical comedy, the $450,000 Tony spectacular restricted the on-camera awards to just twelve categories, devoted the rest of the time to full-dress performances from the four best-musical...