Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Sigourney Weaver, 35, commanding, lissome film actress (The Year of Living Dangerously, Ghostbusters) currently starring on Broadway in Hurlyburly; and Jim Simpson, 28, theatrical director and Yale Drama School professor; both for the first time; in Oyster...
...many talkative cab drivers know, customers have little choice but to hear them out. Now Madison Avenue is aiming its pitch at the same backseat captives. When they step into New York City taxis these days, passengers may find themselves facing electronic signboards that tout everything from beer to Broadway shows. The computerized messages march in inch-high letters across the boards, which are set atop a glass partition between driver and rider. Each 10-sec. plug is part of a cycle that includes public service notices and trivia questions for variety, and repeats itself every four minutes...
...theatrical company selected Lazarus from a field of more than 140 people because of her energetic approach and considerable summer stock, off-Broadway and Broadway credits, according to Keshishian...
...substanceless lyrics, and perfect comic mastery, it all seems familiar enough, but even the most devoted Porter afficianados probably will have trouble remembering You Never Know, Conceived by Porter as an intimate "chamber musical" with a small cast and none of the painstakingly choreographed routines so typical of commercialized Broadway, then as now, You Never Know might easily have remained forever unknown. When a debilitating horseback riding accident in 1937 left both of Portar's legs forever crippled, the Shuberts took the production into their own hands. Under their direction, "You Never Know" suffered more creative perversions than even contemporary...
DIED. Richard Basehart, 70, sonorous-voiced actor whose wide-ranging career included such distinctive roles as the dying Scotsman in Broadway's The Hasty Heart, the mournful clown in Fellini's film La Strada, and the stern submarine admiral on television's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. The son of a newspaperman from Zanesville, Ohio, Basehart consistently sought to avoid stereotypes and expand his range as an actor. In later years he used his authoritative baritone to do narrations and readings, as he did at the closing ceremonies...