Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strung, red-haired actress of stage and screen who won quick fame in 1966 with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...
...name George Abbott is, in short, almost synonymous with American theater, and it is altogether fitting that when he turns 100 later this month, the biggest names on Broadway will jam the Palace Theater to help him celebrate with songs and sketches from some of those landmark productions. How does it feel to turn 100? "Well," says that man of few but well-chosen words, "I'm getting a lot of mileage...
...made his debut on Broadway in 1913, acting in a comedy called The Misleading Lady. Other parts followed, but, itching to control the entire stage, he began writing and directing. For half a century after Broadway, his first big hit, he was the theater's leading show doctor, whose infallible diagnosis could make a bad play better and a good play terrific. Some equate the Abbott touch with speed, a notion that horrifies Abbott, who deplores farces that look as if they had been directed with a stopwatch. What is important to him is keeping the action alive and eliminating...
...Broadway prepares to celebrate as George Abbott, the theater' s grandest, oldest man, turns 100 -- yes, 100 -- still directing plays...
...world-weary languidness of Charlotte Cornwell, repeating her role as the friend, a disillusioned teacher of mixed-race youths. The Charleston version, which Fugard terms definitive, achieved the resonance between the mundane and the metaphysical that characterizes all his best work. From Spoleto it deserves to move intact to Broadway...