Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he once reviewed the London theater for the Daily Express, Barnes resisted taking the Times drama job for a long time. For one thing, he is devoted to the dance and thinks that the greatest figures in the American theater are George Balanchine and Martha Graham. "Many Broadway plays are simply stage visualizations of TV dramas," he says. "I wonder whether Broadway can ever build a viable theater on a lower common-denominator taste...
Based on a novel by J. L. Hodson that Director Joseph Losey two years ago turned into a stirring film called King and Country (TIME, Oct. 1, 1965), Hamp, in this off-Broadway production, derives its tension and strength from a conflict between two goods, not between good and evil. Duty and discipline are obviously good and necessary in wartime, when communal responsibility is essential. On the other hand, mercy shown is also good, and morally imperative; none is shown to Hamp. As he says, softly and pitiably, "It were only the first time, sir." Here the playwright opens...
Lifted off the newspaper page and on to an off-Broadway stage the boys and girls of Peanuts are only tepidly amusing. The show consists of skits and tag lines from the cartoon series, a revue never more than thimble full. Like Punch and Judy, the characters cannot grow, but merely repeat themselves. There is always something affected about grown men and women pretending to be children and dogs, but this cast manages it with a minimum of annoyance. Peanuts is for devout fans, yes; for theater fun-seekers...
...Daffodil. By last week, with both Blow-Up and Georgy Girl making boffo box office, the wave of acclaim had temporarily deposited both Redgrave girls in the U.S. Lynn was in Manhattan playing a dippy deb and bringing down the house night after night in the funniest show on Broadway: Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Vanessa was in Hollywood, playing Queen Guinevere in her first cinemammoth: a $17 million movie version of Broadway's Camelot, in which she sings in a musky mezzo and looks like a rain-washed daffodil in a fire-green Sussex meadow. On April 10, they...
...salty salvo in the war between the sexes, Shrew has already been through several screen treatments, including one with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., a long-running road-company revival with the Lunts, and a Broadway musical adaptation (Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate). Zeffirelli has refurbished the oft-told tale by styling it with the brio of the 16th century commedia dell'arte. Moreover, his casting seems to be a case of art's imitating life: Elizabeth Taylor as the sharp-tongued tigress, Kate, and Richard Burton as her hard-nosed trainer, Petruchio...