Word: shubert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music from Shubert Alley (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Six decades of Broadway, recalled in the songs that sparkled in Shubert Alley musicals. Andy Williams is host. Guest stars include Alfred Drake, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Doretta Morrow, Lisa Kirk, Ray Walston...
...unrelieved dirty shame. Its proprietors have made mistakes, perhaps, in many directions, but they put together a good group of actors, and the series of plays they presented during their brief tenure at the Wilbur were, at very least considerably more interesting than those that occupied the crowded Shubert across the street. The Repertory promised--and provided--what theatrical experts had been demanding for years: an opportunity for rich and poor and cheap and lavish and ignorant and learned alike to go to the theatre, often and conveniently, to see good plays well acted, almost, perhaps, the way they drop...
...about ten inmutes in the second act, a fine musical version of Juno and the Paycock is currently on view at the Shubert. These ten minutes show a backyard party, conducted to the tune of a cheerfully cheesy waltz, suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a woman on the way to the funeral of her son, who had been killed fighting for the Irish Republic. Most of the party, suddenly chastened, troop out as mourners, and the man who had been forced to inform on the dead soldier tries to relieve his feelings in a desperately gay dance...
...Heffernan in the role of the poet, seem more eager to present a "compelling" characterization than to act out their parts in harmony. Heffernan emerges as a quavering neurotic that would puzzle O'Casey, and Edward Zang, in the role of a drunken neighbor, exhibits the mannerisms of a Shubert Alley reprobate, an actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment dweller, is the source of considerable amusement despite, and perhaps because of, its irrelevancy. Robert G.Skinner designed the setting, which...
...includes Green's hilarious version of the early groping talkies: a pompous baritone named "Donald Ronald" who happily mouths "Honeybunch, you drive me frantic with your smiles," but utters only a half-Nelson eddy of sound. After more silent facial farces, Green joins Betty in loudly husking cornier Shubert operettas (The Baroness Bazooka). There is also a Reader's Digest book condensation that scrunches Gone with the Wind into 22 words...