Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenging movements of Shostakovitch's Suite from Incidental [and very trivial] Music to Hamlet, half of which sounds like a collection of ditties out of a Gilbert and Sullivan treatment of the play. The other half suggests the score of a Joseph L. Mankiewicz Hamlet starring Mr. and Mrs. Burton...
...have, in sum, a production that is far from continuously exciting. Yet producer Reed might have had much worse luck. For all its shortcomings, the show is a more satisfying venture than the miserable mishmash that Burton and Gielgud are currently mixed up in on Broadway; and Sawyer is now an actor who deserves careful watching...
...sorry I haven't written, but it has taken me days to get over the wonderful thing that happened. Earlier this week, I saw Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton do a poetry reading at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway. Mother, I don't care what you say about them, I want to tell you it was really beautiful...
...office took me with him because his wife was sick. The reading was a benefit performance for the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, an acting school which is run by Mr. Philip Burton, the foster father who gave Richard Burton his name and trained him as an actor. We sat in $50 seats. All the ones in front of us were worth $100. If that sounds like a lot of money to you, it sure does to me, too, but in retrospect, I guess it seems worth it. Not only did the theater academy get more than...
Afterwards, outside in the street, the crowds were as big as they always are (the theater is the same one where Burton plays Hamlet), trying to glimpse Richard and Elizabeth. I read in the paper that Richard said it is a mystery to him why the crowds are there every night. "At first I thought the somewhat illicit quality of our relationship before we were married was bringing them," he told a reporter from the Times. "We assumed that once we were married it would stop...