Word: cattaneo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play received two readings on the West Coast and in 1978 full production at the California Actors Theater in Los Gatos, near San Francisco. But Grand Central was not to be saved in California, and nothing much happened until last September, when Hamilton got a call from Anne Cattaneo, literary manager of the Phoenix Theater, one of the several off-Broadway groups that had received the script. She suggested a reading as part of the Phoenix's play-in-progress series...
...heights that backers no longer put money into a new play and send it on the road for seasoning. Instead, they will take an off-Broad way hit like The Elephant Man or Talley's Folly and move it to a larger house on Broadway. Thus, with what Cattaneo calls "a nod toward the future," Hamil ton asked Gene Saks, who directed such big budget hits as Same Time, Next Year and I Love My Wife, to stage Save Grand Central. "It's obvious I'm not here for the two-week run," Saks candidly admits...
...Phoenix calls home. Saks gave a little speech, asking for consideration: "Things are pretty rough, and we may have to stop. Please be patient and give the actors your sympathy. They're out here with no net." No one fell, but at the end of the first act, Cattaneo judged that things were rocky. "The actors are tentative," she said, "because they don't know when the laughs are coming." Hamilton added glumly: "I'd say it needs a lot of work." When it ended, he went home and got drunk...