Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show business is a business like any other; I learned, among other things, about grosses, film rentals and calculating break-even points. Covering rehearsals for Cats and La Cage aux Folles gave me other insights and an insider's appreciation for the sweat and hopes channeled into every Broadway opening. I also learned the price tag for attending film screenings: no matter how bad the film, everyone must stay till the bitter...
Harvard has been eminently reasonable about the whole project, holding a series of meetings to hear community concern about the issue, as well as offering to donate about $300,000 to go towards tress, landscaping, and a mini-park to spruce up the Broadway St. site. It is even offering to pay the city $16,000 a year for "air rights" over the public street. What we have here is not a pay-off, but legalized extortion...
...tried to teach a course in creative writing: What would happen if an authentic genius somehow stumbled into class? But it is Romulus Linney who has finally done something wonderful with the notion. In P.M., the masterly miniature that is the centerpiece in this evening of one-acters off-Broadway, he places at one end of the seminar table a prim-looking teacher (Frances Sternhagen) whose lack of success as a novelist has not yet sapped her idealism. At the other end sits Bufford Bullough (Leon Russom). Bufford looks like Thomas Wolfe, writes like William Faulkner and carries around with...
...wheedling, anecdote, abuse-while the listener waits out his opponent and, often as not, wins the battle by withholding approval, by being as silent as God. Such, too, is the uneasy symbiosis of Playwright Pinter and his audience. In these three short plays that Alan Schneider has mounted off-Broadway (two of them first performed at London's National Theater in 1982, the third earlier this year), Pinter dramatizes this relationship through three memorable audience surrogates, each a displaced person from an intellectual twilight zone...
...past, there is some literary snoop who longs to publish them. Such a struggle is the theme of Henry James' The Aspern Papers, and that marvelous 1888 novella is in turn the inspiration for The Golden Age, A.R. Gurney's comic update, which opened on Broadway two weeks...