Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hooks perform with unblemished, infectiously likable honesty. Apart from being lovely to look at, Uggams has a shy sly smile that burgles the theater house. She can cradle a song with her voice or rifle it toward the night sky like a tracer bullet. At 23, she is a Broadway find with a future...
While the current off-Broadway production is dimmed by a few too many pregnant pauses, it is graced with the poignantly melancholy gravity of Kathleen Widdoes' performance as the governess. Italian garb makes the characters seem oddly distant as if they had been translated along with the text. Naked attests to a quickening theatrical interest in Pirandello, marked notably by the Hartford Stage Company's Enrico IV and the APA Repertory Company's Right You Are If You Think You Are. The themes of loneliness, isolation and alienation were all carved out by Pirandello with consummate craft...
Hallelujah, Baby! Broadway frequently believes that it is more blessed to borrow than to beget, which is why so many musicals seem like retrospective shows of previous shows. Hallelujah, Baby! takes the standard saga of a showbiz Cinderella who wants a Shubert Alley marquee for her tiara and combines it with an up-from-wage-slavery plot dating from the social-protest '30s. The only novelty is that the protagonists are Negroes. While it affects to be a six-decade panorama of Negro advancement, the show is more like a petrified forest of liberal and sentimental clich...
Died. Anthony Mann, 60, movie director, a onetime off-Broadway bit-player who rose to direct Broadway shows like 1936's So Proudly We Hail before going to Hollywood, where he turned out over 40 films of meticulous workmanship but uneven merit, including The Glenn Miller Story and El Cid; of a heart attack; in West Berlin...