Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIGER MAKES OUT. From the brittle material of his off-Broadway play, The Tiger, Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia filled with enough laughs to supply an entire season of TV comedies...
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...Margaret Ayer Barnes, 81, playwright and novelist; of a pulmonary embolism; in Cambridge, Mass. Bedridden in 1926 after an automobile accident, she scrawled manuscripts while propped up in her hospital bed. Less than four years later, three of her plays (Age of Innocence, Jenny, Dishonored Lady) had run on Broadway; in 1931, she received the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Years of Grace...
...public-which included John Kennedy-for the place and the musical called Camelot. A golden blend of song and story, it celebrated the fabled, far-off landscape of the English soul, where it never rained till after sun down and where by royal decree summer lingered through September. By Broadway standards, no musical ever had a more regal lineage. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the creators of My Fair Lady, did book and lyrics, based on T. H. White's brilliant tetralogy The Once and Future King. Moss Hart directed; the stars were Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Robert...
...Even on Broadway, Camelot never quite succeeded in capturing the wonderful, free imagination of White's original. The show suffered from a certain staginess-unconvincing battles, overweight choral numbers, anachronistic jokes. The movie, which should have opened up the drama, shuts it down instead. Logan makes every scene appear to be viewed from the wrong end of a telescope, minimizing the story and simplifying the actions. When Arthur sings about fishing, he awkwardly pantomimes the act of casting; when Guenevere chants the simple joys of maidenhood, she is forced to remain supine for 32 bars. Camelot's fantasy...