Word: shubertism
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...Alexander Schneider and Isadore Cohen, one violist, Samuel Rhodes, and two cellists, Leslie Parnas and Robert Sylvester. They performed the String Quarter in E major, Opus 17, No. 1 by Hayden, Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563, by Mozart, and Cello Quintet in C major, Opus 163, by Shubert. Of the musicians, the most distinguished was Alexander Schneider, who, with wirey grey-black hair and metal rimmed glasses, sat perched on the edge of his chair, playing with never-failing energy, expression, and accuracy...
Every fall Broadway recovers its touching faith that "it looks like a good season." Every spring Shubert Alley echoes with moans of lamentations that "the worst season ever" has just passed. In the very first week of the new season, there was already a springlike sense...
Hallelujah, Baby! Broadway frequently believes that it is more blessed to borrow than to beget, which is why so many musicals seem like retrospective shows of previous shows. Hallelujah, Baby! takes the standard saga of a showbiz Cinderella who wants a Shubert Alley marquee for her tiara and combines it with an up-from-wage-slavery plot dating from the social-protest '30s. The only novelty is that the protagonists are Negroes. While it affects to be a six-decade panorama of Negro advancement, the show is more like a petrified forest of liberal and sentimental clich...
...church supper. "Broadway deserves better," Cohen decided, and seven months ago he bought the rights to produce this year's awards show, then wooed American Airlines into sponsoring the event on network TV. Last week the new Tony-poised, polished, brimming with talent-arrived at Manhattan's Shubert Theater and, in one swinging sweep, made Emmy and Oscar look merely like tired vaudevillians...
...Bluebirds. To the trade, on the other hand, David Merrick is no mere figure of fun. He is a monster of rapacity, a genius of publicity, a wizard of organization who over the last decade has personified U.S. theater as no other man, not even Charles Frohman or Jake Shubert, has ever done before. In the 1965-66 season, his supremacy has been absolute. Out of 44 new shows presented on Broadway, Merrick produced only five. But of the season's dozen hits he came up with four: Marat/Sade, Inadmissible Evidence, Cactus Flower, Philadelphia, Here 1 Come! And he also...