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Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards as are the musicals Camelot
...side entrance of the Waldorf, a Broadway production has to be exceedingly durable to survive, and, although the list of running plays has atrophied, summer visitors still have some good choices. Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A por trait of Britain, including talks with such nouveaux riches angry young authors as Novelist Alan Sillitoe, Playwrights Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker...
...Lancashire bookie, Finney was raised in the same Manchester suburb where Playwright Shelagh (A Taste of Honey) Delaney grew up, did so badly in school that his headmaster finally recommended that he become an actor "as a desperate move to get rid of me." He did so well at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art that he won a spot with the excellent Birmingham Repertory Company, where Charles Laughton found him and helped get him his job at Stratford. He has turned down five long-term movie contracts, did Saturday Night and Sunday Morning on a one-film basis...
...satirical assault on conformity by France's perky avant-gardist Eugene Ionesco, is somewhat obvious and farfetched but also exhilarating-particularly when Star Zero Mostel virtually turns himself into a rhinoceros onstage. A Taste of Honey, a first play by Britain's young (19 at the time) Shelagh Delaney, is an unhistrionic, earthy drama about a desperately lonely girl. And the musical Irma La Douce, French to its very bedposts, boasts Broadway's most charming chippy, Elizabeth Seal...