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...SUBJECT WAS ROSES, but the theme is thorns in this perceptive new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed bloodletting that drains people who live within the closeness of the family without being close. The playwright could not have dreamed of a better cast than Irene Dailey, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen...
...SUBJECT WAS ROSES, but the theme is thorns in this perceptive new play by Frank D. Gilroy about the barbed bloodletting that drains people who live within the closeness of the family without being close. The playwright could not have dreamed of a better cast than Irene Dailey, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen...
...They starve there, but only spiritually. Young playwrights dip their fingers into its honey pots; then, if they have substantial spines, they retreat for desperate months of "margin time," writing their "own work" until money is needed again. After Dartmouth and a year at the Yale School of Drama, Gilroy made what he describes as "an all-out total assault on TV." He conquered. He has been all over the channels from Studio One to the Kraft Theater. With some movie work as well, he eventually had enough excess cash to take time off in 1957 to write...
...opened three weeks ago to clamorous raves. Gilroy was welcomed as "a major playwright." Walter Kerr said it is "quite the most interesting new American play to be offered on Broadway this season." Yet it is playing to audiences that could fit into a few lifeboats. Broadway cries out for excellence, but often sinks it when it comes along...
...break even merely by taking in $12,000 a week, or 27% of the theater's capacity. It is not grossing even that much yet, but its audience-which began with a pittance advance sale of $165-is promisingly growing. Broadway pros would have folded it, but Gilroy and his novice producer, Edgar Lansbury, are determined to take the gamble that the play will more than recover its present losses. "All these Broadway experts would like to write us off as an artistic success only," Gilroy says. "I want to be able to talk to them on their terms...