Word: pre-broadway
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...Road is booming. The latest, most extravagant evidence is Detroit's 2,008-seat Fisher Theater, which opened last week with a pre-Broadway production of Kermit Bloomgarden's The Gay Life. Significantly, the space it occupies contained until recently a movie theater...
...theaters. Most of the Fisher's offerings will be secondhand Broadway but Detroit can look forward after The Gay Life to two more special events: the road opening of a new musical called The Crime of Giovanni Venturi (with the Metropolitan Opera's Cesare Siepi), and the pre-Broadway trial of Richard Rodgers' No Strings...
Ogunquit, Me., Playhouse: Future Perfect, with Donald Woods and Martha Scott, a pre-Broadway tryout...
...even if Jean can now and then be persuaded to change a line by an actor who calls her "sweetie." Together they have set some sort of theatrical record, he as a director and she as playwright, for seriously antagonizing almost no one, despite the frenetic, hypersensitive atmosphere of pre-Broadway rehearsals, when nearly everyone behaves?as Jean Kerr puts it?"as if they had just been rescued from burning stables." The lone, whinnying exception is Elaine Stritch, frenetic, hypersensitive star of their unfortunate 1958 musical, Goldilocks. "Jean and Walter," says Elaine, "are like the classroom...
...Broadway play's pre-Broadway alterations can sometimes be basic. The latest example is Big Fish, Little Fish, by Hugh Wheeler, which opens on Broadway March 15 and stars Jason Robards Jr. as a middle-aged hollow man who, in the bright past before Act I, used to be a brilliant young professor at a girls' college. But an old accusation hangs over him: he had seduced a trustee's daughter, who, when jilted by him, committed suicide in his bathtub...