Word: precurtain
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Towards 4:30* on that "first night" afternoon, some 1,200 people made the Martin Beck Theater resonant with that exhilarating precurtain buzz, like leaves before a storm, which has been familiar to theatergoers for 2,500 years. There was plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always...
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