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...prepared, a team headed by John Elson was at work on the cover story. It was written by Stefan Kanfer, our movie critic, making one of his frequent forays into Broadway territory, and with good reason: he is a sometime playwright. Five years ago, Alexis Smith starred in a pre-Broadway tryout of Kanfer's comedy, The Coffee Lover...
TURNING Lolita into a musical was a bad idea from the start. Nabokov's novel dazzled us with its wit and moved us with its poetry. Lolita, My Love. now in pre-Broadway tryouts at the Schubert, has chucked the wit and the poetry in favor of a plodding, graceless retelling of the plot in the tradition of garish, simple-minded musical comedy...
...mother. "When an entertainer needed a stooge," says his father, "Elliott would be the one they'd choose. He could do a dozen dialects?German, Italian, Jewish, all of them. Then he performed one summer for three weeks in summer stock. He had the second lead in a pre-Broadway show at Woodstock, Some Little Honor...
Following The Price into the Wilbur will be Angela (October 13), a new comedy by the idiot who wrote Never Too Late. This pre-Broadway tryout will star Geraldine Page, God help...
...opened with a David Merrick tryout, The Penny Wars, written by Elliott Baker and directed by a beautiful actress-comedian named Barbara Harris. Two fine actors, George Voskovec and Kim Hunter, head the cast-but the Boston notices and rampant trade gossip indicate the show is in serious pre-Broadway trouble...