Word: macbird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...September of 1967 when Samuel Samshak was playing the crony in the Boston MacBird, two theatrical friends approached him with the idea of starting an experimental theatre somewhere in the Boston area. Between the three of them, Samshak, the actor, Jerry Reagan, the actor-director, and Ron Beaton, the light technician, they had the necessary qualifications. So with what little money Samshak had in the bank, they rented a storefront in the cinder-block beauty of BRA's Castle Square and transformed it into a theatre. On October 5, 1967, the Atma Theatre (then known as the Atma Coffee-house...
...original cast means Jim Garner, 39, a Tennessee-born ex-radio actor and program director, who scored another smash success last season in the title role of Atlanta's production of MacBird. His is a deft caricature of Lester Maddox as a bland, eupeptic nincompoop given to chats with God. Dressed in blue knee pants and jacket, a Buster Brown collar and a big red tie, Garner prances blithely across the stage, wagging his head, whistling his sibilants, letting his tongue loll inanely between parted lips. The portrayal produces whoops of delighted recognition from audiences, who know the original...
...subplots, he mangles them. The black doctor's relationship with his establishment daughter--one of the book's most perceptive delineations--plays like a Black Power version of Secret Storm. Its climactic carnival scene is as baroque as the conclusion of Sinatra's Some Came Running. Stacy Keach, of MacBird, is left with nothing to do. His character, a thirties radical in the novel, has been reduced to a drunken bum (someone was afraid to dirty their camera in politics). And Singer's mute friend is grossly overplayed. I don't object to the elimination of these characters--that...
Born. To Lynn Redgrave, 25, comic half (Georgy Girl) of filmdom's sister act (Vanessa's credits include Blow-Up, Camelot), and John Clark, 35, British-born actor (MacBird); their first child, a boy; in London...
...Stokely's successor as head of the ill-named Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, H. Rap Brown, suggested that the President and Lady Bird ought to be shot. In The Accidental President, liberal Journalist Robert Sherrill described the President as "treacherous, dishonest, manic-aggressive, petty, spoiled." The outrageous play MacBird! called...