Word: off-broadway
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What A.R. Gurney is for the old money set, Richard Greenberg is for yuppie arrivistes: a rueful chronicler of meaningless manners, misbegotten mores and loves gone wrong. THE EXTRA MAN, off-Broadway, focuses on a figure common to both circles: the unattached man of uncertain sexuality and undeniable charm who is always on hand for friends and in fact lives through them, sometimes in ways meddlesome or even Machiavellian. Boyd Gaines, who won a Tony Award as a saintly gay doctor in The Heidi Chronicles, balances amiability and creepiness in the role. He is ably backed by TV stars Adam...
...changed my mind." Instead he created a star of his own, choosing Prince as Adelaide, the shopworn showgirl who has been Nathan's forlorn fiance for the past 14 years. She has been building a reputation among insiders since her Tony-nominated turns in Jerome Robbins' Broadway. In the off-Broadway original of Falsettos, now the best new Broadway musical, her portrayal of a middle-class mother abandoned by her husband for another man was compassionate, heartbreaking and subtle. She was even a hit with critics as a crooked bisexual secretary in this season's biggest bomb, Nick and Nora...
...discontent. The wealth of new shows, a third more than last season, creates a competitive scrabble that may kill off the weakest. The new entries are also putting pressure on holdover shows, like The Will Rogers Follies and The Secret Garden, that need another season to pay back investors. Off-Broadway too has been hard hit, hemorrhaging audiences to the abundance uptown...
...nearly 10 years he tried other stories. Nothing worked. The one musical he finished, Romance in Hard Times -- about a mystical pregnancy and a Depression soup kitchen -- ran briefly off-Broadway at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Says Finn: "The show wasn't perfect, but parts were brilliant. The score was spectacular." The reviews were so bad that he was relieved he had jury duty after it opened: "I figured that if I were in the courthouse I wouldn't actually commit suicide...
...Shimada, that a new script by an unknown author absolutely requires star clout. Says Berlind: "The average straight play costs more than $1 million to produce. Doing one on Broadway without the protection of name recognizability is almost a lost business." Seader is even blunter: "We were originally considering off-Broadway. I don't think we would have done Shimada on Broadway without stars...