Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROPOSITION, a political, musical, musical, satirical, and, occasionally, mechanical review in Inman Square, has been in operation since February, 1968. That's a long time, and given what theater audiences seem to support, it may be a dubious distinction. But as their ads say, "1,250,364 laughs can't be wrong...
...WENT to see Albert at The Proposition's new office to find out what had happened. He is attractive, if slightly ferocious looking, and seems to have a theater person's compulsive need to create; he is capable of seeing a sexual component in almost everything he or anyone else does. He is working now at the Yale Drama School and is writing a thesis on "sex in the theater...
Albert says of the show when he came to it. "It was a history of doing things the wrong way. This little theater group was operating under 'the star system.' The actors would cut each other's throats for laughs. It had a canned quality, and in that, it was almost like a TV show. The show was artistically bad, and it was boring. The actors didn't respect themselves or each other...
...first thing Albert did was sponsor parties for the cast. This went on all summer: "I had to prove to them that they liked each other. The Living Theater says that you have to screw together to act together...
...wasn't. As Mishkin kept telling the theater owner at the other end of the table: "When we play, we play. When we work, we work." But the man persisted: "Lee, how about us all doin' a little quail huntin'? We'll take some baby dolls along, drink a little whisky, do a little gamblin'." "No drinking," Mishkin said...