Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unaccustomed to such a hands-on director, the actors at Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater Festival were perplexed at first, afraid that the boss might stifle their creativity. "I should have heard those lines, and I didn't," was his constant complaint during rehearsals of Broadway, a melodrama he had first directed in 1926. But then they remembered the name behind that stern voice. "Hey," said one young actor, "this is George Abbott! We know it's going to work...
...screen are real, tiny people with real, tender feelings that could be dented by an offhand joke in print." Each week he sees an average of a dozen films, usually in screening rooms but sometimes in crowded Times Square theaters. "I like to slip into theaters unnoticed. On Broadway the audience's critical comments are often more piquant than mine, and more interesting than the movie we're all watching...
...Symphony No. 2 received its world premiere in San Francisco. Prestigious as it is, the prize only certifies what many in musical circles were already aware of. The symphony, however, boldly proclaims an important voice in an art form that has been declared dead more often than the Broadway musical...
This, though, is a relatively small matter. Better to celebrate the rise to prominence of Harbison and fellow Symphonists Albert and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who won her Pulitzer in 1983. Like Broadway, the symphony is a fabulous invalid: there is nothing wrong with it that a few good works cannot cure...
...competition with Broadway fare, Miss Daisy last week won Drama Desk Award nominations for Playwright Alfred Uhry, Director Ron Lagomarsino and all three members of the well-nigh perfect cast. Attempts are under way to move it to a larger theater, and eventually it seems fated to follow the traditional happy path of an off-Broadway hit: toward a long and honorable life in regional theaters across America...