Word: playgoers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the blade of action. Strangely and wondrously, for a Broadway stage, it is the mind that dances in Seasons; faith is the inner core, but intelligence is the outward proof of the hero's virtue. That a play so chaste in its lucidity should ultimately fill a playgoer's eyes with tears is partly a debt British Playwright Bolt owes to British Actor Paul Scofield...
What possesses the modern playgoer? Above all, it is the chance to get away from modern drama that represents little more than introverted self-communion, from little plays about miserable little people. In Shakespeare, he sees characters probed in Freudian depth, without the jargon. Instead of words that plop over the footlights like dead tennis balls, he hears language that surges like the sea. The modern stage bleats with special pleadings...
...week next season, could easily be absorbed in current budgets, which, said the union, are warmly padded. The producers, on the other hand, insisted that they simply could not afford to tack a single penny onto already excessive production costs. Amid all the argument, the playgoer is sure of only one thing: he pays more for tickets than ever before. In 1940, seat prices ranged from 50? to a maximum (for musicals) of $4.40. Today's top: $9.90. Where does this money...