Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEATER On Broadway POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr is still wearing the life-of-the-party grin from Mary, Mary, but behind the witticisms something sobering denies that life is that kind of party at all. With Alan Bates playing a lyric poet turned wench charmer and lush, the comedy is less funny than Mary, Mary but more probingly perceptive...
There was nothing contrary about Mary, Mary. When Jean Kerr's comedy closed last week after 196 weeks and 1,572 performances, it had taken in nearly $6,000,000 at the box office another $4,000,000 from the touring company, and $400,000 from Warner Bros. for movie rights. Was Author Kerr, whose more serious Poor Richard had opened to mixed reviews a week and a half before, sorry to see Mary go? "It did $18,000 last week, and it's sort of sad it has to close," she said. When did she feel Mary...
...Euripedes' The Trojan Women (at the Circle in the Square), inspired by the Athenians' attack on Delos, is probably still close to flawless even though Mildred Dunnock has left the cast. Directed and choreographed by Michael Cacoyannis, the production includes an outstanding musical score by the modern Greek composer Jean Prodromides...
Imported from London is the redoutable Jean Littlewood's satirical revue Oh What a Lovely War (at the Broadhurst). The material is not newly minted, but drawn from actual records, memoirs and recollections of World War I. It's an evening of music and laughs, but every joke carries a dagger. Performing in this quasi-Brechtian production is a large and able British company headed by Victor Spinetti, Barbara Windsor, Murray Melvin, and Brian Murphy...
...highest quality--but do we really subsist on 50 cents worth? Many students will go out to dinner tonight and pay at least $1.00. If we are interested in contributing money to Mississippi. It seems only reasonable that we send as much as we "sacrifice." Jean Strouse...