Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tomorrow evening, the curtain will rise on a new musical comedy entitled Silk Stockings. There will be a full house, of course--there is always a full house at Broadway openings when the play has been created by such big names a Feuer and Martin George S. Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Cole Porter, and Jo Mielziner. The aura of a big hit will...
...many plays in the past have suffered from, and have eventually overcome, such problems as lukewarm reviews and extended revisions. What hit Silk Stockings in Boston of January 22 was something entirely new and unexpected. Under the headline: KAUFMANS DISOWN SILK STOCKINGS', the Herald reported how George Kaufman and his wife Leueen McGrath, co-authors of Silk Stockings, had just seen the show in Boston after several weeks of absence from the troupe withdrawing from the production. Kaufman has never made clear whether he did not like the show in Boston or simply thought that Abe Burrows had re-written...
...mean he likes Frank Lloyd Rite, Growpius, and the rest? Peter Duus '55, Curtis Kaufman '51, A. Robert McMurray...
Porter is not the only disappointment of the evening. George S. Kaufman and wife have failed to do for Ninotchka what Sam Spewack and wife did for Taming of the Shrew. In the Kaufmans' version, propaganda and comedy are blended in the worst proportions. Near final curtain, when they decide that perhaps the audience is convinced that Paris is preferable to Siberia, the authors throw in a few old anti-anti-Communist jokes and call it a night...
George Tobias, as a Russian Commissar of Art, and the rest of the cast are blameless; they did the best they could. Silk Stockings is two and a half hours of testimony that Messers. Porter and Kaufman...