Word: brynners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ethel Merman would appear together in a two-woman show on Broadway. And so it finally happened in a one-night benefit replete with hoops and hoopla and costumes from South Pacific, Gypsy and, of course, Hello, Dolly! Briefly joining the high jinks onstage were the likes of Yul Brynner, Burgess Meredith, Joel Grey and Geoffrey Holder-who kicked up their heels in an all-male chorus line. When it was over, Ethel, 68, sighed, "Fm on Cloud Nine," and Mary. 63, was still savoring the roars of the audience. "It was like we had hit twelve home runs...
Nostalgia is Broadway's top growth industry. And how could a stroll down the fond memory lane of great musicals be complete without a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I? The first and only true King, Yul Brynner, still rules the stage in the way that a mountain peak dominates its surroundings, and he has proved as immutable in appearance. Audiences have been humming the enduring, enchanting score ever since the opening night of 26 years ago. This production dwarfs recent musicals in its opulence. The dances, originally choreographed by Jerome Robbins, are drolly...
...mousse and fillet. Just as they were sitting down in their gowns and tuxedos, an equally elegant bunch was drifting out of Manhattan's Tavern on the Green, where Superagent Irving ("Swifty") Lazar had invited 200 of his closest friends-including Bianco Jagger, Truman Capote, Polly Bergen, Yul Brynner, Walter Cronkite and Lee Radziwill -to help him celebrate his 70th birthday and to watch the awards on ten television screens. But, as they used to say in Brooklyn, wait'll next year and the 50th...
Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, with Yul Brynner playing the Greek wanderer, the show had endless problems during a yearlong eleven-city tour, including a demand by Writer Erich (Love Story) Segal that his name be removed from the credits. He must have known something...
...Magnificent Seven. In the fifth grade, this was one of my favorite movies, and a very popular favorite at Lincoin Avenue School. Not having seen it since then, I'm reluctant to stick my neck out. There are a bunch of stars in it (Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, maybe, or Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero...