Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cher made her theatre debut in the Broadway production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." After starring in the movie "Silkwood" last years Chet will have her first starring role this year in the film "Mask...
...Happy Tune, etc., etc., etc.), the King sings none. It matters not. By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with a role more than any other actor since Bela Lugosi hung up his fangs. Last week, when his "farewell" tour opened to packed, enthusiastic houses on Broadway, he was incarnating the King for the 4,434th time...
WHITHER MODERN theater? Since the advent of film, most of the material that would have appeared on or off Broadway is much more ably shown on the screen. The greatest modern playwrights have realized this, tailoring their work for maximum theatrical impact. The less-than-greatest playwrights still have not mastered that trick, and the quite a bit less-than greatest don't even realize the obsolescence of their plays. It is into that latter category that Hugh Whitemore falls; if most new plays were like the Broadway-bound pack of Lies the question would not be "Whither modern theater...
Home Front was first staged last June in London, starring Sternhagen and under the direction of Michael Attenborough. Both repeat their roles in the excellent Broadway production that opened last week. One might expect O'Connor (as a milder Archie Bunker) or Fields (in a part that cries out for an actor with the implosive intensity of a Sean Penn) to commandeer the spotlight. But Home Front is Sternhagen's show, allowing her to nail down, with an increasingly desperate comic urgency, the suburban matriarch. This mom will not be accused of screaming at her children: "I was using...
Unlike most members of the class of '43, Nancy Davis did not plunge from college straight into marriage. Indeed, she was out in the world from 1943 to 1952, first as a Marshall Field's shopgirl in Chicago, then as a bit-part Broadway actress, then as a successful Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Still, even as she pursued a Hollywood career, she wanted everyone to understand that her hopes and dreams were safely conventional. Her "childhood ambition," she wrote on her MGM biographical questionnaire at 27, was "to be an actress." But her "greatest ambition" was "to have...