Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PAUL ROBESON. The script is uncritical idolatry, but Avery Brooks (Spenser: For Hire) gives this one-man Broadway show a dignity, emotional force and singing voice as awesome as the American original...
...SHAYNA MAIDEL. Gordana Rashovich has resumed a stunning performance in this off-Broadway story of a family divided by Hitler's Holocaust...
RUMORS. After a meditative family trilogy, box-office champ Neil Simon returns to riotous farce in his 23rd play, at San Diego's Old Globe on its way to Broadway...
...tough are times for the networks? Just look at the plight of two of TV's most cherished stars, both returning in CBS sitcoms this fall: Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke. The pilot episode of The Van Dyke Show (in which Dick plays a Broadway star who helps his son run a regional theater) had to be scrapped and redone when the network decided it wasn't funny enough. Mary's comeback vehicle (she plays a divorced mother who marries a structural engineer with children of his own) also had to be reworked when the producers switched...
This wasn't really what I had in mind when I decided to explore Broadway--I was looking for theater, my name in lights, big fame, big cars, or at least something slightly reminiscent of its New York namesake. Failing that, I thought the location might have appeal--South Station, I knew, was fairly near the water--maybe this stop, the next one further on the red line, would be the beach...