Word: liliom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dudley Digges, 68, veteran character actor; after a stroke; in Manhattan. One of Dublin's original Abbey Players, wry-eyed, roly-poly Digges came to the U.S. in 1904, stayed to join the infant Theatre Guild, played in 25 Guild productions (including Liliom, The Doctor's Dilemma). He reached stardom in 1938 as "Gramps," who chased Death up a tree in On Borrowed Time, won his final laurels in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
Carousel. Charming Down East-in-the-'70s musical transplantation of Liliom (TIME, April...
Carousel. Richard Rodgers' & Oscar Hammerstein II's charming New England-in-the-'70s musical adaptation of Liliom (TIME, April...
Carousel. Charming, touching musical play made from Molnar's Liliom by Okla homa's Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (TIME, April...
Carousel has moved Liliom from 20th-century Budapest to 19th-Century New England, and renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good...