Word: broadway
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...theaters that constitute Broadway occupy a few acres in midtown Manhattan. But to much of America, a Broadway show is something to be seen hundreds, even thousands of miles from Times Square -- in Atlanta or Dallas, Phoenix or Detroit or any other of the dozens of cities that make up what suitcase-toting actors wearily call "the road." Like the Shakespearean troupe in Kiss Me, Kate who "open in Venice" and schlepp their show from town to town, ensembles representing recent Broadway hits take to the byways every year. This summer at least a dozen tours have offered purportedly...
...talk shows as Tonight and Late Night with David Letterman, as well as on | their own specials for cable networks like HBO and Showtime. Jackie Mason, a veteran stand-up performer from the '50s and '60s, made a smash comeback by turning his comedy routines into the current hit Broadway show The World According to Me. And Steve Martin is just one of a long and stellar list of former stand-up comics who have parlayed their punch lines into successful TV and movie careers...
While the British movie, Prick Up Your Ears, has done much to introduce Orton to the U.S., it's only been in the last two years that his plays have been produced in America. There was a successful run of Loot off-Broadway this past year, and his acclaimed masterpiece, What the Butler Saw, has enjoyed stage-time in Harvard's own Loeb Ex and in New Hampshire. Now Bostonians can delight in a short one-act Orton gem, The Erpingham Camp, done with great energy and skill by Harvard/Radcliffe Summer Theatre...
RETIRING. Roger L. Stevens, 77, indefatigable chairman and guiding light of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a position he has held since 1961; in Washington. Stevens, a former real estate magnate and Broadway producer (Bus Stop), shepherded the actual complex into being in 1971. His successor: Ralph P. Davidson, 59, who steps down next year as chairman of the executive committee of Time Inc., and takes up Stevens' duties on July...
...others are Chess, a cynical and muddled narrative in which Sicilian openings and checkmates serve as metaphors for nuclear disaster; Phantom, a quasi- operatic retelling by Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats) of the much- filmed monster-meets-girl melodrama; and another revival from the heyday of the Broadway tunesmiths, Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, in a consistently lively rendition by the Royal Shakespeare Company that nonetheless will need star quality recasting to prosper on Broadway...