Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began with the Monty Woolley scandal of 1949. That was when the HDC's highly successful Boston production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Woolley in the title role, came to a disastrous end by the Club's business manager making off with the ten thousand dollar ticket receipts. That enterprising young man has never been seen since, and neither have the comfortably low admission prices for Harvard drama of that...
...open to conjecture whether the HDC has increased its ticket costs in following years to pull itself out of that morass of red. But this increase is not limited to the HDC, since smaller groups in the University have followed the rise up, indeed often surpassing the HDC in excessive admission charges...
...such turkey as Macbeth. And it is useless to exhort the Club not to produce bad plays. The big income for a production like Hamlet is met by equally big expenses for extravagant costumes and costly set construction. If the HDC could reduce spending on these two items, perhaps ticket prices might be lowered to a more reasonable level; certainly cost of a production is not proportionate to its quality. The HDC does have free admission, however--to its dramatic workshop productions. The workshop plays are pleasant sometimes, but the offer reminds one of the free haircuts given by barber...
...last night of his company's stay, Jean Louis Barrault walked through the vestibule of Sanders theater and through the crowd as though it were his dressing room. He was still in the process of being made up as he shook hands and made last minute arrangements over the ticket gate. The effect was to make all of Memorial Hall his stage. This, in essence, is Barrault's approach to the theater...
...best. And often it was an unusual audience, made up of local school girls dutifully herded to Sanders or great masses of the local French colony for whom this was a real occasion. Some of the faithful waited around for places despite the harping of imported ticket takers to the effect that all performances were sold out. One persistent little woman gently pushed aside the gate man with the comment, "but there is always a free set there in the front...