Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McKellen is perhaps the most respected classical actor of his generation in England (and the creator, on Broadway, of the sinuous Salieri in Ama-deus), but an adolescent's enthusiasm and wonder animate every moment of Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare, the one-man divertissement in which he opened last week on Broadway for a five-week engagement. First concocted in 1976 and intermittently toured ever since, the show is an amalgam of personal reminiscences, theatrical lore and selections from Will Shakespeare's Greatest Hits. It gives McKellen a sort of actor's holiday untrammeled by directorial "concepts...
...Harris was a man of great gifts, none greater than his capacity to inspire bitter hatreds. He burst upon Broadway in the 1920s, a charismatic, rather sinister Yale dropout and former pressagent convinced that he could produce and direct plays better than anybody else. He seemed to be right. By the age of 28, Harris had four hits running in the same year, including The Royal Family and The Front Page; he was earning $40,000 a week and was acclaimed as the Wonder Boy of Broadway. "His self-belief was hypnotic," said Playwright S.N. Behrman, who got his start...
Each night at 10:45, crowds stream out of Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater limp and disheveled, gasping for breath and wiping their eyes. Much as they may appear to be fleeing tear gas or a smoke bomb, these people are in fact the happy victims of a very different kind of explosion. They have just spent more than two hours howling and guffawing at Noises Off, the farce by Britain's Michael Frayn that is the comedy hit of the season. The show recounts the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors as they perform...
...physically demanding farce, however, has already exhausted two sets of actors and is currently wearing down a third. Blakemore rehearsed two of the three London casts and so was well prepared when he arrived in New York to train the Broadway team for a December opening: he brought his whistle. Says...
...writer that he became finally and truly lost. In almost all of his 17 novels he exhibited a fatal temptation to play the philosopher, to make a large statement. He described his 1950 drama Burning Bright, which closed on Broadway after only 13 performances, as "a morality play, completely timeless and placeless." He translated and retold Arthurian legend and once proposed collaborating with Director Elia Kazan in staging modern versions of Greek tragedy...