Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen stars in his new play as an exposed clutter of neu roses, guilts and self-recriminations, mostly centering around his lack of success with women. Coached by his fantasy hero, Humphrey Bogart, Allen does get a girl: he winds up in bed with his best friend's wife. The play does not properly progress along with the evening, but Allen's kooky angle of vision and nimble jokes are amusement enough...
...Broadway PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen stars in his new play as Allan Felix, an ex posed ganglion of neuroses, guilts and self-recriminations, whose wife has just left him. Coached by his fantasy hero, Humphrey Bogart, Allan does get a girl-he winds up in bed with his best friend's wife. The play does not properly progress along with the evening, but Allen's kooky angle of vision and nimble jokes are amusement enough...
Died. Jack Kirkland, 66, newspaper-man-turned-playwright who in 1933 transformed Erskine Caldwell's earthy Tobacco Road into one of the most successful Broadway plays of its time (more than 3,000 performances), wrote the Broadway version of Man with the Golden Arm, and recently completed the book for a musical adaptation of Tobacco Road entitled Jeeter; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Robert Aldrich's film is a fairly straight adaptation of the play by Frank Marcus, which opened in London in 1965 and subsequently came to Broadway. Much of the humor in the film comes directly from Marcus's script; Beryl Reid, who starred in the play, supplies the rest. As Sister George, she plays an again television actress who is being written out of her part in the soap-opera she helped to create. "They are going to murder me," she announces to her flatmate. "I've suspected it for some time...
...success of Promises and the rest of the latest batch of "rock" musicals certifies the fact that the paths of Broadway and true rock culture will continue to meet in the future. While some of the established critics will dissent--John Wilson of the Times found Promises all beat and no melody--the trend seems to be towards a modernization of the American musical. What remains to be seen is whether the New York musical theatre will receive enough potent doses of pop/rock to bring it down squarely on the side of the cultural revolution...