Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Based on John Hersey's novel and Paul Osborne's Broadway play, this TV edition of A Bell for Adano features John Forsythe, Kathleen Widdoes and Murray Hamilton...
...Broadway THE LITTLE FOXES. An admirable revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play in Lincoln Center demonstrates how securely bricks of character can be sealed together wilh the mortar of plot. Anne Bancroft, George C. Scott, Richard Dysart and Margaret Leighton are expertly guided by Director Mike Nichols through gilt-edged performances as members of a family afflicted with a vulpine itch for plunder in the turn-of-the-century South...
...BIRTHDAY PARTY is nine years old and Harold Pinter's first full-length play. Brought to Broadway for the first time, it is as highly individualistic, if not as technically poised, as his later works. The playwright cuts through the conventions of accepted stage behavior and the rules of the well-made play to expose the cruel and the comic, the frighteningly familiar and the terrifyingly unknown in each man's existence...
...four Odets plays to appear on Broadway in 1935, Awake and Sing depicts a Bronx Jewish family of the early depression, stifled by conditions they won't try to change. Jacob, the grandfather, has taken what little Marx he knows to heart, and implores his family to leave the world better off than when they found it. But it takes Jacob's death--an apparent suicide--to convince his two grandchildren, Hennie and Ralph, to free themselves...
...Broadway a couple of seasons ago, Wait Until Dark seemed like a wrong number for Playwright Frederick Knott, who once dialed M for Murder. The thriller's screen incarnation gives him a chance to call again. This time he gets through-with a better scenario, set and cast...