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...early 30s, with no experience whatsoever, Houseman found himself in Harlem, directing the first production of the Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Not long afterward he became Orson Welles' principal collaborator in the renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some...
...Orson Welles Cinema 1001 Mass...
Houseman and Orson Welles were the co-producers of Marc Blitzstein's "labor opera" initially scheduled as an entry of the WPA'S Federal Theater Project. In one of those periodic bouts of political jitters, the Maxine Elliott Theater was closed to Cradle the day before the opening. Ironically, since the show is vociferously pro-union, the musicians' and actors' unions forbade them to play or go onstage...
Such sleazy or musically related flick can also occasionally be seen at the Orson Welles, which is located next to Chi-Chi's on Mass Ave towards Central Square. The Orson Welles' three screens cater to all types of movie tastes. Foreign films that have just made it to Boston, American documentaries or other low-budget, low-key movies that wouldn't make it to any other movie house are typical fare...
...Galeria movie house located at the ground floor of the Galeria shopping mall on JFK St, usually gets a first run foreign film that might not make it to the Orson Welles for a few months. The movies appearing on the Galeria's one screen change frequently and on occasion first-run American films make take a curtain call...