Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALKING HAPPY is the musical version of H. G. Brighouse's near-classic, Hobson's Choice, introducing British Musicomedian Norman Wisdom to Broadway audiences, and a most entertaining acquaintance he is. While the score is pleasantly forgettable, Danny Daniels' choreography is fresh and memorable...
...Broadway...
MacBird! by Barbara Garson has been awaited with all the fierce anticipatory noises surrounding a tumbrel arriving at the guillotine. Long before the play's off-Broadway opening last week, an honor guard of coterie intellectuals, including Critic Dwight Macdonald and Yale Drama School Dean Robert Brustein, went into tub-thumping ecstasy over MacBird, which promised a dramatic severing of President Johnson's head. In addition, it capitalized emotionally on a winter of public discontent with L.B.J.-the poll-recorded loss of favor with the electorate, the supposed credibility gap, concern about Viet Nam, Johnson's embroilment...
...third off-Broadway drama, Missouri-born Playwright Wilson has not avoided the cliché that small towns spawn only people who are quirky and vicious. Fortunately, the honesty of language, the evocative direction of Michael Kahn, and the uniform skill of the cast, make Wilson's vision plausible. In his play, the milieu is really the message. Something in the U.S. heartland's culture itself seems to stifle his characters' heartbeats whenever they try to make an openhanded gesture of the flesh, the mind or the spirit. Wilson's Rimers are indeed what their collective name...
Both girls are now recording for RCA Victor, and both are aiming for Broadway. Lana, being younger, is the more impatient. When and if a Broadway role comes along, she says, "I want to go in as a star." Marilyn is more philosophical. "If it happens," she muses, "it'll be great, and I'll be terribly excited. But if it doesn't happen, that's all right. I know what I can do. I've been around for so long that I'm not at all starry-eyed...