Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second, $40,000 spot premiered last week on the cable USA Network and Cable Health Network, which together reach about 15 million subscribers. Starring in the eye-catching advertisement is Deborah Diehl, 25, a New York City actress whose previous appearances include an off-off-Broadway production of Henry IV, work as an extra in Francis Coppola's upcoming Cotton Club and TV plugs for Paterson Silks and Pergament paint. How does she feel about peddling panties in the buff? "It's not exactly Shakespeare," says Diehl, "but it beats selling paint." Even if it is a shade...
Zakes Mokae brings a sense of quiet majesty to the part of Sam--a role which he originated on Broadway, earning a Today Award for his powerful performance. Mokae presents a poised and insightful, but self-restrained Sam, fully aware that he, not Hal, has the more valuable lessons to impart. While there is a disturbing lack of tension when Sam first debies Hal's demand for proper respect, the climatic strength builds up quickly to Mokse's resigned yet underfeated pronunciation "Yes, sir, Master Harold...
...more excellent place. He even believed that it was part of his task as President to lift American culture. He and his wife Jacqueline brought Pablo Casals and Igor Stravinsky and Bach and Mozart to the White House. His own taste may have run more toward Sinatra or Broadway musicals, but Kennedy believed that it was his duty to endorse the excellent in all things, to be a leader in matters of civilization. That was a novel notion in American politics, novel at least since the days of Thomas Jefferson...
...February and March, the ART will present "Traveler in the Dark," a companion piece to "Night Mother," which premiered at the ART in 1982, won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama last spring, and moved on to Broadway...
...standard practice," he said. "Serious plays are very rarely produced directly for Broadway anymore. Almost every serious writer has a relationship with a non-profit residential theatre that tends to initiate that writer's work," Rich explained...