Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retiring New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay, 52, has done well by Broadway in charity-benefit walk-on roles. Could Broadway have done without him? No, was the unanimous opinion of the 400 show-biz folk who crowded into a Manhattan restaurant last week to thank Lindsay for his support of their profession during his eight-year administration. Among the grateful: Monique Van Vooren, Joan Fontaine, Christopher Plummer, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Lynde, Rita Moreno and Composer Richard Rodgers. Paying waggish tribute to Lindsay's consistency, Peter Boyle said: "He's been a very good mayor...
...LUCKY MAN! Lindsay Anderson's jaunty morality play, a sort of vaudeville Pilgrim's Progress with ironic commentary provided by Alan Price's smashing musical score...
...Martha Deane, the relaxed, knowledgeable interview hostess on New York's WOR; of cancer; in Manhattan. A onetime newspaper reporter, Taylor took the professional name of Deane in 1941 and questioned such guests as Dwight Eisenhower, Arnold Toynbee, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and John V. Lindsay...
...recognized as an "urban" spokesman, but he has accelerated the decay of Manhattan by starving New York City for funds. This he did partly to make potential political rival John Lindsay look...
...only failing in this excellent production of Pinafore is the gimmickry. During the Lord Admiral's attempt to woo Josephine, director Lindsay Davis inserts some unnecessary slapstick which detracts from the Gilbert humor. Dick Deadeye (Phillip Baas) does not wear the usual eyepatch but sports instead a "dead eye" which, from the balcony, looks like a wart. He is also equipped with a hook for a left hand...