Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooks Atkinson covered Broadway for 35 years before the New York Times gave him the honorific title critic at large. But George Gelles, music critic of the Boston Herald Traveler for just two months, reached the same status last week. And he is only 27. What accounts for the sudden rise...
...even the high professionalism of his Broadway production can disguise the fact that Thornton Wilder's Our Town was, is and always will be a humanities lecture with visual aids. The principal aids are the characters, who, ike the tables and chairs on the otherwise barren set, are deployed in a series of vignettes by the Stage Manager. His is the unenviable job of trying to be a Greek chorus to just folks. The lecture part of the play stresses the importance of the familiar things of life, and that each day should be savored as if it were...
Died. Vicki Cummings, 50, stage and television comedienne, noted for her sardonic wit; of cancer; in Manhattan. On and off the stage, she had a voice as brassy as Ethel Merman's and a tongue as agile as Dorothy Parker's; she made her Broadway debut in 1931's Here Goes the Bride, scored hits in 1943's Voice of the Turtle, 1953's Mid Summer and 1966's The Butter and Egg Man revival, and appeared in more than 200 TV shows, most notably The Man Who Came to Dinner and Burlesque...
When he appears in his own Broadway comedy (Play It Again, Sam) or his own film (Take the Money and Run), Allen fleshes out the jittery image of Everymanic-depressive. Inanimate objects become his sworn enemies, paranoia reigns and everyone becomes a Woody worshiper. But Don't Drink the Water is minus the man-as adapter and actor-and the result is the lesser half of a situation comedy...
...dropout from school, succession of odd jobs and petty thieving. Then Lahr tries burlesque just for fun and is hooked ("I would have done 20 shows a day. It was like a shot of -dope? Adrenalin?"). He rises to vaudeville, lives with and eventually marries his act partner, reaches Broadway while at home his wife is going insane ("She laughed at me, John. Laughed when I was making love to her"). Reluctantly, Lahr has her committed, almost simultaneously scores a smash hit in his first book show and takes up with a nymphomaniac tramp ("I don't know...