Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...One Sunday afternoon in 1965, late in a losing game and late in a losing year, Los Angeles Ram Quarterback Bill Munson hobbled off the field with a banged-up knee. His replacement was Roman Gabriel, then in his fourth year of spotty, second-string duty. The plays were sent in by the coach and "the boys didn't think too much of me in the huddle," Gabriel recalls. "I can't say that I blamed them. I had no idea how to read a defense." He soon became a speed reader. In the season's remaining...
THAT bit of advertising copy took up less than one-eighth of a page in the Sunday New York Times. But by 7:30 Monday morning, people were falling into line for a show so long awaited and so much talked about that advertising was almost superfluous. By noon, the line stretched along 51st Street, turned the corner at shuttered Lindy's onto Broadway, headed uptown, rounded the corner again and began backing up into 52nd Street. The first day of box-office take for Coco, which starts previews next week, was a record-breaking...
What makes Coco the hot ticket? Katharine Hepburn, for one thing. The musical interpretation of the life and times of Paris Couturière Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel will be Hepburn's first Broadway performance since she played the title role in The Millionairess in 1952. Hepburn is not alone. Alan Jay Lerner did the book and lyrics, André Previn is making his Broadway debut with the music, Cecil Beaton is designing the costumes and sets, and Frederick Brisson (Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game, AIfie) is producing...
...planners, who are not exactly breaking down other Broadway doors this season, had booked nearly $1.500.000 in advance ticket sales before the box office opened last week. Not that the musical doesn't need every buck it can get. It is costing $900,000 to stage, making it one of the most expensive Broadway productions in history...
...they worked out an ego-saving shorthand to communicate lack of enthusiasm for each other's work. "If we didn't like something," Previn explains, "we'd say, 'It fits.' That's very polite, and it has the same result as if one of us said, That's a piece of crap...