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...musical play in an off-Broadway theater used to be as out of place as a Rolls-Royce in a one-car garage. Exceptions came along: Once Upon a Mattress climbed the magic money tree to Broadway, and The Threepenny Opera revival is now five years old and practically a city park. But overwhelmingly, the tenpenny impresarios preferred to stick to drama, shying from competition with Broadway's big, corporate musicals, which approach high finance with their million-dollar advance sales and use stars whose fees recall the lifetime winnings of Whirlaway. This season, the off-Broadway producers finally...
...right now as the ideal of every red-blooded American boy and girl. In five dramas now seething in Manhattan, Mom is depicted as a mean lady, a monster, or absolute family nemesis. The quintet: Bye Bye Birdie, Five Finger Exercise, Gypsy, Toys in the Attic, Once Upon a Mattress. Interviewing some of the stage mothers involved, the Trib also learned that any actress can forgive herself for playing an unsympathetic role. As Kay Medford, the all-possessive Mom of Bye Bye Birdie, saw it: "I've never been a mother, so I wouldn't know what mothers...
...style." With his relatively low budget ($107,500 a show) and his low-pressure approach, Moore reasoned that he could not depend on big names. Now his crew of regulars includes Announcer Durward Kirby, fluttery Marion Lome, Allen Funt, with his candid camera, and Singer Carol (Once Upon a Mattress) Burnett, whom Moore considers "the one major comedy talent among girls to come along in the last ten years." There is also a list of about 35 "semi-regular" guests. This week the visitors were Jack Benny and Diahann Carroll, but it was crew-cut Garry Moore, as usual...
Once Upon a Mattress. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Monika Korngold won a divorce after complaining that whenever friends dropped by, her husband put on his pajamas, insisted that...
Happy Anniversary. On their 13th anniversary, Husband David Niven and Wife Mitzi Gaynor remember their premarital hotel room in a mattress farce that is slick, sleazy, but hilarious...