Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have tricks in my pockets. I have things up my sleeve." With these first words from The Glass Menagerie, his Broadway debut in 1945, Tennessee Williams announced his dramatic strategies and asserted his mastery of verbal magic. To the American theater Williams lent a firefly glow through which audiences could see into the dissolving past, into the long nights of desire and failure. For the next 35 years, directors took their cue from Williams' own lazy flights of self-destruction, from his wispy-wise, Percy Dovetonsils voice, and launched productions of his plays on gossamer wings toward the aerie...
Considering the potential promise and relative obscurity of the play, this is a shame. Though it enjoyed a successful Broadway debut with Bette Davis--and a subsequently not-so-successful film adaptation featuring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset--both play and playwright are little known among contemporary theatregoers. Yet the crisp dialogue and comic sentimentality of the script make for what could be an entertaining evening of theatre...
Through this underworld Pacino stalks like a panther. He carries memories of earlier performances (the bantam bombast of Dog Day Afternoon, the nervous belt tugging from American Buffalo, the crook'd arm from his Broadway Richard III), but creates his freshest character in years. There is a poetry to his psychosis that makes Tony a figure of rank awe, and the rhythm of that poetry is Pacino's. Most of the large cast is fine; Michelle Pfeiffer is better. The cool, druggy Wasp woman who does not fit into Tony's world, Pfeiffer's Elvira...
MARRIED. George Abbott, 96, legendary Broadway author-director (On Your Toes); and Joy Moana Valderrama...
...Leigh had penned more than 200 unpublished song lyrics. In 1954, after visiting her father in a hospital where he was recovering from a heart ailment, she wrote Frank Sinatra's hit Young at Heart (with Composer Johnny Richards). Later she created the lyrics to the Broadway musicals Peter Pan and Little...