Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most significant American contribution to theatrical tradition is the musical, and there is generally at least one outstanding show even in Broadway's barren years. Some good ones, currently touring the strawhat circuit...
...hottest afterburner three years ago, Baby Jane Holier, 27, is trying "to find reality" through acting, has graduated from $200 underground films to a genuine Hollywood talk-on. She is also enjoying her most stunning success to date-undulating on the floor of off-Off Broadway's Cafe La Mama as the hopefully seductive heroine of a one-acter called The Love Lecture. "You give your all, and they dig it," said Baby Jane. "You can't play a part without facing yourself and communicating." "It's really groovy," agreed her leading man, "all that rolling around...
...Paris fashion world for the past two weeks has been like a solid string of Broadway openings. Behind the scenes, all was hysteria, tantrums and frantic last-minute pinning, as couturier after couturier sent out his fall and winter models in one make-or-break fashion show. It was even worse out front, where fashion editors, buyers and quick-sketch artists-most of whose skirts rode up to mid-thigh-wildly scribbled and checked programs in a furious effort to catch the new trends...
That, more or less, was the plot of Luv, one of the funniest Broadway plays of recent years. Transferred to the screen, the comedy of the absurd comes close to being a tragedy of the impossible. Author Murray Schisgal's original was a cockeyed but unerringly apt satire of people who make Freud their only poet, whose love talk is all about adjustment, alienation, angst and other pop-psychological cant. But this deft parody has given way to the adolescent vulgarisms of Scriptwriter Elliott Baker, who plots slapstick sequences in a department store and a Japanese restaurant that would...
...time I saw him do the difficult leading role of Brother Julian in Albee's Tiny Alice two summers ago in Philadelphia. This was a portrayal carried through with subtlety and skill, substantially superior to what Sir John Gielgud had been able to do with the part on Broadway. And now, after nine years, Colicos has returned to the Festival to tackle the tremendous title role of Macbeth and to traverse it triumphantly. His success is all the more marked when one looks back to the Festival's previous bout with this play, in which Pat Hingle's Macbeth proved...