Word: playscripts
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...father is dangling him as pervert bait to land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final bullet, idle-minded theater partygoers may wonder, in days to come, whether this playscript was found in Terence Rattigan's typewriter or his wastebasket...
Journey was produced on Broadway in 1956, three years after the playwright's death. Translated to the screen by Director Sidney Lumet, who has added nothing to O'Neill's playscript and taken very little away, Journey provides a raw red slice of family life, liberally garnished with rotgut, morphine, vitriol and sour grapes, that takes more than three hours (allowing intermission) to digest. But it feeds the inner...
...Joey (Columbia), a musical that has enjoyed two major runs on Broadway (1940-41, 1952-53), was once modestly characterized by John O'Hara, who wrote the playscript, in a phrase that has become a Broadway byword. Said O'Hara: "It ain't Blossom Time" It sure ain't, but it is a dandy piece of entertainment−the sad, hilarious story of how a kept man lost his meal ticket. It has some of the spunkiest and most graceful music Richard Rogers ever wrote, some wackily witty, leering lyrics ("The way to my heart...
...soon try the onerous feat of bringing a lusty chunk of the stream of consciousness of Author James Joyce to Broadway. Their dramatic selection: the "Nighttown" portion of Joyce's phantasmagoric Ulysses, covering three hours in a Dublin bordello, most of it originally set down by Joyce in playscript form. Hard to read, harder to act, impossible to stage with its own wild flavor intact because of obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read by match-light. Sample...
...chief villain in the grim playscript was the Vatican. Hour after hour, from a sheaf of notes clutched in his hand, Bishop Kaczmarek, 58, recited indictments of the Catholic hierarchy. "It must be known," he said, "that the Vatican has always been leading an anti-Polish policy." It was hoping to "hand back our territories to Germany" in return for Germany's help in a war against Communism...