Word: off-broadway
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Although his grades in school were poorer than poor-"I was skinning by on my belly," he says-his talent got him into Manhattan's famous High School of Performing Arts. That led after graduation to a job as an understudy off-Broadway, and that led absolutely nowhere. For a year, Vereen worked in the mail room of a motion-picture company, vainly hoping that somebody would notice his loud on-the-job singing, then he landed a spot in a small-town Pennsylvania production of West Side Story. There he found his first and, so far, only experience...
When A Moon for the Misbegotten finally reached Broadway in 1957, it did not enjoy a long run. It was not acclaimed in this country until beautifully produced off-Broadway in 1968. It may be that American theater of the time, unlike the Swedish stage which successfully adopted the play in 1953, could not accept a work so unaccustomedly slow-moving and uneventful. It is still difficult to maintain unflagging interest in the drama. But, despite several handicaps, the Loeb production, with good acting and careful pacing, manages to interest the audience consistently...
...Though she is as big as O'Neill requires and possesses as beautiful eyes as are specified, she does not have the vocal expertise and sense of timing of the other actors. Nor is she the unconventional beauty one might hope. (Almost any actress suffers in comparison to the off-Broadway Josie--Salome Jens.) Yet she interprets her role with the same sensitivity as her fellow actors construe theirs, and she is able to build a powerful and subtle tension with Currier in the scenes in which her genuine love for him is frustrated by his need to confess...
Joan of Arc has been many people to many writers. To Al Carmines, the off-Broadway clergyman-showman (TIME, May 22), she is an idealist with a square build, a butch haircut, a belting voice, and a yen for planting bombs in public toilets for the sake of the revolution...
...Associate Editor Stefan Kanfer, doing a story on Comedian-Writer-Actor-Director Woody Allen was a bit like going home. Kanfer, like Allen, once wrote gags for nightclub and TV personalities. He also had a short run as an off-Broadway playwright before joining TIME...