Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Real Thing brings romantic comedy back to Broadway...
Trudeau was right, of course, and though "Washingtoon" will probably never make it to Broadway's floorboards, the strip is one of the few that ably captures the irony of a liberal perspective on Washington in the '80s. One effort that comes close is James T. Pendergast's "Mrs. Gipper," which began appearing on the letters page of Rolling Stone last year, and portrays the adventures of the First Lady, surrounded by a full entourage as she galavants through the capital city, stopping off to order fast food and advise husband Ronnie on the issues of the day. Few other...
BORN. To Jane Pauley, 33, bright-eyed, bushy-maned co-host of NBC's Today Show; and her husband Garry Trudeau, 35, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist whose musical adaptation of his Doonesbury comic strip is currently on Broadway; their first children, twins, a boy and a girl; in New York City...
Squeakiest Door: The homosexuality closet on Broadway, which was vividly pried open with the Tony-winning Torch Song Trilogy and the hit musical La Cage aux Folles...
Most Versatile Talent: Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who scored off-Broadway with his dynamo dramas True West and Fool for Love, and on-screen as the sexy incarnation of Test Pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff...