Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Night in Bangkok is a Top Five smash in half a dozen European countries. Now Chess is readying to blitz America. Two versions of Bangkok have cracked the Top Ten of the U.S. record charts. Next year the omnipotent Shubert Organization is expected to bring the show to Broadway...
...make it a great show." Meanwhile Rice, who in his spare time helped compile The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits and loves nothing more than to discuss rock arcana, can take satisfaction in his biggest hit record. If its momentum carries the piece to hit status on Broadway and beyond, it may be years before Chess reaches endgame...
...Club, a comedy about eight matronly Irish Catholic sisters who meet every other Friday during the 1930s and 1940s to play cards and swap stories, remedies that problem. The narrative is slight and achieves its climaxes by announcing rather than portraying them. But the current production displays some of Broadway's most skilled actresses demonstrating how to employ the briefest dialogue to imply unspoken volumes. Playwright Barry keeps the inner lives of the sisters well guarded, by intention: he means to examine the kind of militantly conventional family in which candor is considered bad taste and emotional intimacy...
...revival that opened on Broadway last week after a successful run in London, Glenda Jackson & Co. are having a bit of fun with Strange Interlude, and the audience is making fun of it. Does the play deserve these responses? To an extent, yes. O'Neill was aiming for ultramodern tragedy in his tale of Nina Leeds (Jackson) and the men in her life over a quarter-century's time. Nina is an Everywoman, crippled by her need to be all women. To her dead sweetheart Gordon she must be a faithful widow. To her widowed father (Tom Aldredge) she must...
...Just as the Compass had been, Second City was to be a showcase for performers whose native wit had been quickened by training in the methods of improvisation. Before long, it had gained a reputation as a small pond that spawned big fish, and as veterans took off for Broadway or Hollywood, eager newcomers arrived to take their places. "Everyone will tell you we all loved one another," snorts Rivers, who arrived in the early '60s. "But when the rundown for the night's show was posted, people would say, 'What do you mean my scene is not on tonight...