Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much word-of-mouth stimulation preceded opening night as to make the evening almost anticlimactic. The rumor was that Oh! Calcutta!, appropriately housed in an off-Broadway theater renamed Eden, would be a nude frontier in permissive theater. In an anticipatory dither, sophisticated and not so sophisticated New Yorkers rushed to the box office to make the show's 41 previews sellouts. They verified the rumor. Oh! Calcutta! is the nudest show outside a nudist camp. Though the top price on the scale is $7.50 for an orchestra seat, scalpers have collected $20 and more. On July...
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DAMES AT SEA is a delightful parody of the movie musicals of the 1930s, complete with naive Ruby, who comes to Broadway to tap her way to stardom...
Died. Martita Hunt, 69, one of the great ladies of the English stage and screen, who enthralled American audiences as the sinister Miss Havisham in the 1947 film version of Great Expectations, and in 1948 as the wondrously wacky ragbag old crone in Broadway's The Madwoman of Chaillot; in London...