Word: off-broadway
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...risk handling pain on that scale is a big gamble, and Rabe is a plunger. Pavlo was his first play. (His second work, Sticks and Bones, develops related themes of the war's moral crippling in more dimensions.) Pavlo opened off-Broadway last year. It is now in a new production by the Theater Company of Boston, with Al Pacino as Pavlo. The twin trajectories of Rabe's fresh talent and Pacino's intersect with concussive impact, splattering the audience with agony and unexpected humor...
...Neill aloud to the brick walls. In 1966 he auditioned for the Actors Studio and was accepted. "I got back into acting to save my life," is the way he puts it now. He started landing small parts, which led to an Obie Award-winning performance in off-Broadway's The Indian Wants the Bronx in 1968 and, the following year, to a Tony Award for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? on Broadway...
Cazale, 36, has scuffled along from acting classes at Boston University to the Charles Playhouse to the inevitable stint off-Broadway, where he paid the rent between acting jobs by becoming a photographer. He was also an office messenger at the Esso Building in Rockefeller Center. There one of his fellow messengers was a struggling actor named Al Pacino...
...shadow. In her early professional appearances, Liza had to face audiences that came to see her largely because she was "Judy Garland's kid" and were frankly skeptical about whether she could measure up to the name. In time she did?and then some. She played in an off-Broadway musical, starred in one on Broadway, and won roles in three movies. She made records, appeared on TV and went out on the nightclub circuit...
...thrown out and have her clothes confiscated when she could not pay the bill. Neither parent could be found for help, and she spent one night on the steps of the fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel, another in Central Park. Luckily, she was cast in an off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward. The salary, $34 a week, barely covered expenses...