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...Another sore point for Merrick last week: he had just closed in Boston his second production of the season, Hot September. Down the drain: an estimated...
...brigadier general and dozens of pretty Vietnamese girls in sodden turquoise and white ao dais. "If they care enough about us to stand out there in the rain," said the first passenger, "the least we can do is stand there with them." So out came Broadway Producer David Merrick, and right behind him Star Mary Martin and the 70 members of the international company of Hello, Dolly! They were there to mount the first big U.S. musical comedy ever played in a combat zone...
Critic's Mission. The Defense Department billeted the troupe downtown in the second-class but comparatively safe Hotel Meyerkord. A sentry watch was set around the area and even in the sewer mains beneath it. Quipped Merrick at his first press conference: "It's no more dangerous here than it is in New York on any opening night...
Maybe less so. Merrick, in order to join the U.S.O. tour, had just missed the first first night of his 40 since entering show business in 1954. The show was Pickwick, and it was a critical bust (see THEATER). Smarting from the reviews, which had been phoned to him in Tokyo,* the splenetic producer tore into Herald Tribune Critic Walter Kerr with an intemperance to match Radio Hanoi. Kerr (who is a Roman Catholic), said Merrick, "panned Pickwick because the Pope was saying Mass at Yankee Stadium that night, and Walter was simply sore that...
...Pentagon. The company would put on six performances in the next ten days in the war area, but the exact locales and curtain times were kept secret. From Viet Nam, the troupe will play a fortnight for troops in Korea and Okinawa. "After that," said Merrick last week, "we go to London-for money...