Word: cdf
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...addition to directing, Gielgud will play Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, opening Aug. 24. Miss Leighton will play Beatrice in the same production, according to William M. Hunt, executive producer of the CDF...
Along with Broadway producer Roger L. Stevens, Quintero and Miss McKenna will take part in ceremonies at the theatre site today. The three will then hold a press conference, at which time the name of the CDF's first production will be announced...
Miss McKenna made a triumphant American debut in the title role of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, which opened the CDF summer season at Sanders Theatre in 1956. She returned to the Boston area last year in the leading role of The Rope Dancers...
...CDF is, to use an expression from my own metier, thinking wide-screen. This new project should not be a watered-down brew of local semi-professional theatre, governed by an enormous and unwieldly board of wrangling representatives. It is a broadly-conceived plan to bring the best in drama (and music as well) from all over the world to a superb theatre in the Greater Boston community...
...CDF and its president, William Morris Hunt, have been chosen by MeBAC as the organization best fitted to carry out such a plan. Although Mr. Hunt is producer and "theatre man" of considerable accomplishment, I am sure he does not plan to use MeBAC to advance some drama group of his own at the expense of independent theatres--he would act as general supervisor of the whole project, would act as booking agent (as he has done with John Gielgud, the Theatre Nationale Populaire, and so on), and would no doubt also hire producers to present shows which would originate...