Word: closed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nineteen shows currently running on Broadway, only five are new this season. One John Osborne's A Patriot for Me. opened to mixed reviews and has been playing to sixty per cent of capacity: it is a big budget show and will probably close within the month. Another Three Men on a Horse is a thirties comedy revived to generally favorable reviews and miserable box-office. Jimmy, the lone musical. cost $900.000, opened to unanimous pans and will fold any minute at a total financial loss. Arthur Kop it's Indians, the most exciting and well received play...
Princeton did run off seven straight triumphs before the Penn meet, however, with Stafford and Downey splitting the victories between them. If Denny O'Brien and Tom Yunck the Tigers' third and fourth men, can somehow stay close to the leaders the meet could be closer than the Crimson expects...
...minute confrontation began at the close of a sparsely-attended roon rally on the steps of University Hall. The demonstrators quickly entered the building, intending to present their demands to Dean Watson...
...Overruled is Slaw as his most irrelevant. The mood of the play, and even bits of its plot, is very close to Wilde's Importance of Being, Earnest. Two married couples have gone on trips around the world, but each pair has split itself up and started from opposite directions. The husband from each pair has met and tried to seduce the wife of the other, and they have all wound up in the same hotel in England at the end of their trips. That sounds implausible, but then farce is built on implausibility...
...last play, The Heeding. is Checkbox's burlesque of the marriage ceremony. Everyone gets drunk and throws around food. Anything at all sensible is shouted down by the guests, and the play comes close to pathos at the end. A "general" who nobody knows has been brought to the party because the bride "always wanted a general." The "general" is just an old retired navy man who starts screaming orders and blowing his whistle. The guests finally shut him up and hustle him out, and he goes off muttering "A shoddy way to treat an old man." Chekhov's comments...