Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway's search for a new hit musical has sent it lurching mostly into the past. Of this season's first ten efforts, two derived from old movies, two reworked old novels, four rehashed old stage or cabaret shows, and six relied entirely on recycled songs. Last week the main stem reached back 20 years to revive Sweet Charity, a loud, sentimental farce about a taxi dancer who gives herself body and soul, but especially body, to any man who hints of love. In 1966, Sweet Charity garnered just one Tony Award, for Bob Fosse's explosive choreography...
When the show opened on Broadway last week, many appalled theatergoers demanded, Who is Bernard Sabath and how dare he defile these golden scamps? That outrage underscores how deep a nerve the playwright is aiming for. If life has so disappointed Huck and Tom, the epitomes of hope, how can a spectator not be plunged into pessimism about his own unfulfilled ambitions? The execution is not quite so imaginative as the premise. Tom (John Cullum) and Huck (George C. Scott) are both using assumed names, so it takes a long, creaky while for them to acknowledge each other as they...
...years' worth of late-night television when Johnny Carson, 60, Jack Paar, 68, Steve Allen, 64, and Jerry Lester, 74, appear together next week in a three-hour special celebrating NBC's 60th anniversary. The three Tonight show hosts plus Lester (who had a pre-Tonight variety show called Broadway Open House in 1950-51) had never gathered before. "We started the most imitated show in television, the talk format," boasted a misty-eyed Paar (1957-62). Allen (1954-56) was less sentimental. "We never thought anything we were doing was a big deal at all," he recalled. "We were...
Jack Lemmon stars in a profound reconception of Long Day' s Journey into Night. Also on Broadway: George C. Scott and Debbie Allen...
Last year's general assessment cut rents at 9-13A Ware St. and 472-474 Broadway by 15 percent and cut rents at 18-20 Ware St. by four percent. HRE has already filed for rent increases at the three buildings. In addition to the increases to cover day-to-day operating costs, HRE has filed for a 15 percent raise in rents on 472-474 Broadway to cover long-term capital costs...