Word: off-broadway
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Nuns and priests are the new stars on and off-Broadway...
...many ways the history of the film is as inspiring as its plot, illustrating the rewards of devotion and tenacity. Written by Actor Ernest Thompson, Golden Pond debuted as an off-Broadway play in September 1978. Transferred to Broadway in March 1979, it did mediocre business and lasted only through June. Then something unusual happened. Three new producers resuscitated the play a few months later, and it remained on Broadway until the spring of 1980. It still did not catch on, however. When the two Broadway runs finally ended, the total loss was about...
...Club. Bill C. Davis' Mass Appeal lived up to its title, and this study of a wise, troubled priest and a rebellious young deacon is still going strong 160 performances later. Around the same time, Christopher Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You exploded off-Broadway. Written with the vindictive passion of a Jacobean tragedy and performed at a tempo the Marx brothers might have found taxing, Durang's one-act delight appeared on a sheaf of Ten Best lists. It has since moved to a larger Manhattan showcase, where it continues...
...becomes as mawkish as an afternoon soap opera. But what is right about it is absolutely right. Playwright Harvey Fierstein has created characters so vivid and real that they linger in the mind, talking the night away, long after the lights have been turned out and everyone has left off-Broadway's Actors Playhouse...
There are probably more little houses in the Hollywood area than in any other part of town, but there is no real center, no off-Vine Street, for instance, that could be compared with off-Broadway in Manhattan. Ron Sossi's Odyssey is in West Los Angeles, where it is currently selling out with Something's Rockin' in Denmark, a musical based on Hamlet. J.F. Smith's bare brick-walled Deja Vu, which looks like a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, is on the eastern frontiers of Hollywood Boulevard. The Studio Theater Playhouse, which is currently premiering...