Word: druten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show stars Liv Ullmann, the music is Richard Rodgers' 40th Broadway score, and Producer Alexander Cohen raised $1.5 million to put it on. Based on the 1944 Broadway hit by John van Druten, Mama recounts the struggles of the Hansons, who are poor Norwegian immigrants in San Francisco. The play is intentionally sentimental, a celebration of family life. When the new production opened in Philadelphia in March, critics panned it. Too episodic, with a weak story line, they complained...
...usual shopping and partying. After Mother Janna heads home, Actress Liv and her daughter Linn, 11, will get down to more serious business. Linn is bound for school in Connecticut while Liv rehearses for her musical theater debut, playing the loving matriarch in a remake of John Van Druten's comedy I Remember Mama. The play about a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisco, which spawned a long-running TV series, will open on Broadway in the spring. "Richard Rodgers has written eight songs for me," says Liv. Will she dance too? "Oh no," she protests. "Mama doesn...
First came the short stories by Christopher Isherwood. Then John Van Druten strung them together to make a play called I Am a Camera, which eventually became a movie with Julie Harris. All this furnished the raw material six years ago for a Broadway musical called Cabaret, which is now reincarnated as a movie...