Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway, September is always the month that most nearly resembles Dr. Johnson's definition of a second marriage-"the triumph of hope over experience...
...sustained stock-market decline. The result is that while 33 new plays and 45 musicals have been announced for the season, only seven plays and four musicals are definitely scheduled to open between now and Jan. 1. Indeed, this may be the year of permanent transition to heavy off-Broadway production, which rose from 37 new plays and musicals in 1966-67 to 80 this past year...
...Calcutta! has done more for the cocktail party than for the stage. Clothes will be the talk of the season as far as Coco is concerned. This musical, based on the life of famed 86-year-old Fashion Designer Coco Chanel, brings Katharine Hepburn back to the Broadway after a lapse of 17 years. Haute couture will be served with 253 costume changes, and the approaching theater-party ladies can be heard with the clarity of an elephant stampede...
Another musical, Jimmy, profiles the last really Fun Mayor of Fun City, Jimmy Walker. Broadway's unceasing penchant for self-celebration will provide a whole clutch of musicals, among them Hocus-Pocus (Harry Houdini) and W.C. (Fields could have thought of a better title). The Girls Upstairs is a tale of Ziegfeld Girls who have passed their prime, and Shubert Alley is about the three brothers who gave Broadway some of its more pungent history...