Word: shubertism
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...critic described it, its techniques seem tailor-made for a new audience -people from twelve to 20. When it comes to live dramatic spectacles, the vast majority of these go only to rock concerts and would not know "Doc" Simon from Simon Gray. Bernard B. Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization, which owns the Winter Garden, where the show is playing in New York, likes to think of Beatlemania as something that could help revitalize the Broadway audience rather than change the theater itself. "All of us in the last several years have been trying to attract this audience...
...many female movie stars, she was the product of a broken home. She made it through high school by serving as a slavey in a private school, enduring broom-handle beatings from the headmaster's wife. Dancing was her escape - first emotionally, then literally, when she became a Shubert chorus girl...
...resilience of Colleen Dewhurst and the stoicism of Ben Gazzara cope with the killing pressure of acting out that marriage made in hell known as the Strindberg couple? This is the ultimate drama within the drama on the stage of Boston's Shubert Theater...
Pols and Nabobs. On the other hand, one of the blessings of repertory is the second chance. And the third chance. In May, two more big-name migratory workers, José Ferrer and Kate Reid, will come to the Shubert in Long Day's Journey into Night, to be followed by Eva Marie Saint and Fritz Weaver in Candida. Recalling that he was a charter member of earlier Greater Boston repertory companies?the Group 20 Players of Wellesley and the Cambridge Drama Festival?Weaver now jokes about writing a book called Festivals I Have Opened and Closed...
...musical is as innocent as the birth of song and dance. One legitimate objection to Ipi-Tombi might be that it seems rather closer to Shubert Alley than to the tribal life and customs of the Zulus. The story line is simplicity itself. A young man (Daniel Pule) who lives in the village of Tsomo is drawn to the big city (presumably Johannesburg) in the hope of earning more money for his wife (Linda Tshabalala) and family. He finds urban life unappetizing and dehumanizing and returns to his hometown. That a simple, unspoiled child of nature can be corrupted...