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Elizabeth McCann has a recurring nightmare. It is first night on Broadway, and the curtain is about to rise on a play that she has produced. The chandeliers sparkle, the red carpeting looks freshly laid, the giltwork on the ceiling positively glows, as if waiting for the gates of heaven itself to open. And there is total, absolute and terrifying silence. She is the only one in the hall. No one else has bothered to come...
Fortunately, when she wakes up, McCann has her own kind of security blanket-the comforting facts. Last year the plays that she produced with her partner, Nelle Nugent, grossed more than $14 million. Since McCann and Nugent went into business less than five years ago, they have been responsible, in whole or in part, for some of Broadway's biggest hits: Dracula, The Elephant Man, Morning's at Seven, Amadeus. When they started, their colleagues referred to them simply as the girls. Now they are respectfully called the ladies-or, more appropriately, the golden ladies...
...their list, is scheduled to premiere March 26, with Glenda Jackson playing the same part she did in London, that of a schoolteacher frustrated with life in the provinces. Only one of their shows, Home, failed to make back its investment (some $300,000), and even that, says McCann, will probably turn a profit after its planned road tour...
...descends the stairs with utmostholy piety; Rodgers leads him on with an ironic smile. Sneering at Orgon's simplicity, McElvain rips off his hairshirt (revealing clean linen underneath) and prepares to go at it. Director Grey Johnson draws out the scene for all it's worth, keeping Orgon (Bill McCann) under the table until Tartuffe has practically consummated the affair. Rodgers, displaying genuine alarm, keeps kicking McCann under the table, unable to believe he could hesitate so long before putting a stop to things. Johnson controls the scene, stringing the audience along almost until someone will jump up onstage...
...Still, McCann's outside shooting couldn't do it all for the Judges, and when his point production slowed down, Harvard's domination on the boards began to show. The Crimson outrebounded Brandeis 39-19 for the evening and consistently got one and as many as three follow-up shots. Defensively, the Crimson usually limited Brandeis to just one outside shot per possession...