Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). The King and I (1956). Film adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical, starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr...
...Broadway A CRY OF PLAYERS. Anne and Will of Strat-ford-on-Avon have a very bad marriage. She is always nagging; he drinks, wenches and poaches. Out of this ill wedding, the genius of Western dramatic literature emerges-but one would never know how from William Gibson's meandering fustian. Anne Bancroft does not help the play with her Bronx housewife intonations, but Frank Langella speaks a convincing pseudo-Elizabethan line and conveys the anguish of a young man torn between his responsibilities...
Smell of Death. To be sure, Betio has become the Broadway of Tarawa. A dance hall teems with devotees of the newly discovered twist. Outdoor movies attract audiences of hundreds each evening (10? to sit on the ground, 20? upstairs). But blockhouses and rusting gun barrels still pock the landscape, and laborers regularly unearth skeletons that have been buried beneath the sand for a quarter-century. It all came back, Sherrod reported-"the sweetly sickening smell of death given off by thousands of bodies rapidly rotting in the tropical sun, the sight of an island stripped of every...
Unless one happens to be a voyeur, it is sexier to imagine plays with nudes than to actually see them. Sweet Eros is no exception to this rule, even though the naked girl (Sally Kirkland) in this off-Broadway one-acter by Terrence Mc-Nally is on view for almost an hour. The skin show is more abstract than erotic, and terribly sedate. The girl is bound to a chair and gagged most of the time, and initially clothed. Possibly the most exciting scene in this distinctly lethargic drama is the one in which she is undressed by her captor...
...audience if all the parts of the production function properly. The happy news at the Loeb this week is that director George Hamlin has seen to it that everything about his Promise is right; a production that could have been a fiasco (as this play was in its Broadway version last year) is an often chilling piece of theatre instead...