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...When the Shubert brothers took on You Never Know, they felt compelled to add a heavy coating of glitz. The result was a near-total disaster. By contrast, the Huntington troupe has remained faithful to Porter's original conception of the play, mounting a production that captures all of Porter's charm and many of his faults--among them, a rather sportsmanlike view of romance...
...NIGHTS A WEEK until May 5, hundreds of curious Bostonians will be lured from the familiarity of Tremont St. into the Shubert Theater Once inside, they will find themselves in the midst of an exceptionally designed illusion, a feline fantasy where a superior society of cats flourishes unbeknownst to the men who cater to them. While the illusion sometimes sags under the excessive weight of extravagant special effects, the fairy tale remains resiliently intact, and the satisfied audience returns to reality only after a delightfully entertaining tour of the magical, mystical, mythical world of Cats...
...City this fall when Ticket World, a reservation service operating in Detroit, moved into the New York market. It has computerized the box offices of several Broadway shows, and is linking them to more than 70 area locations. And the nation's largest chain of legitimate theaters, the Shubert Organization, has just installed a ticket-by-phone service for all 16 of its Broadway houses, and is extending it to such cities as Boston and Chicago as well...
Since its opening in 1976, A Chorus Line has broken box office records on three continents, captured nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama: now it returns to the Shubert Theater for its fifth and final engagement. The curtain has risen for more than 3000 different audiences. In more than 3000 performances over seven years, the show's international company has not lost its spark: in this engagement the dancers and singers perform with the exuberance and energy of an original opening night. All the ingredients that have made A Chorus Line so successful remain strong in this...
...George Abbott's book provides just the right mix of Shakespearean vaudeville and vaudevillian Shakespeare. Large chunks of iambic pentameter are carelessly tossed across the stage, only to be nimbly undercut by an outrageously topical reference or a wonderfully bad pun. And since its 1938 world premiere at the Shubert Theater, Boston, The Boys From Syracuse inspired quite a few more Shakespeare musicals, most notably Kiss Me, Kate, and its influence can also be seen all over A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum...