Word: pre-broadway
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...Temptation of Maggie Haggerty," a professional New York production, opens for a pre-Broadway run on Tuesday at the Brattle Theatre. The play, a new comedy by James McGee, will run for two weeks at the Brattle and later open in New York...
John Steinbeek's now play Burning Bright moves into the Plymouth Theatre tonight. The pre-Broadway production will star Barbara Bol Goddes, Kent Smith, and Howard Da Silva. Direction by Guthrie McClintic and settings by Jo Mielzinor...
...precariousness of local ("pre-Broadway") theatergoing is being graphically demonstrated at the Shubert Theater where a new musical revue entitled "Dance Me A Song" is currently playing. It is the composite work of eight songwriters and 11 sketchwriters. It has an esteemed producer and a famous set designer. Its cast includes some of the brighter young names on Broadway. It could have been a swell show but it certainly isn't. In fact, except for some of the sets, all elements of "Dance Me A Song" are just basically mediocre and no amount of personable performing can help them...
...most gifted young playwright. The choice also heaped honors on much-honored Director Elia Kazan (recently Oscared by Hollywood for directing Gentleman's Agreement). But the prize had a more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick, had at last made a success in show business that she could call...
After discovering the manuscript in the archives of Houghton Library, the theatre group learned that the play is slated for a New York production late in the spring. Nevertheless, Maxwell Perkins '06, literary executor of the Wolfe estate, gave the student thespians the rights for a pre-Broadway showing...