Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miyoshi's live-wire agent booked her all over the country-in nightclubs, auditoriums, small-town theaters. Then she got on Tennessee Ernie Ford's TV show and Arthur Godfrey's morning show. On the Godfrey show, Miyoshi was noticed by Warner's casting director, who brought her to Josh Logan, who hired her for the role of Katsumi in Sayonara...
...kick out of anything, it was singing. She sang her earliest solo at 3½, when she visited a Sunday-school class one Easter and laced into White Lilies with such gusto that the rest of the kids quit to let her go it alone. To everyone in town, Chiby seemed like just another American kid; people began to call her "Pat." At a "couple of county things" she stopped the show with her unbridled rendition of I Am an American...
...Drum cast dislikes, it is the installation of closed-circuit TV in the St. James Theater, where the show has settled down for its New York run. Not that anyone objects to the stage manager keeping track of the action. But Hammerstein has ordered a cable run to his town house so that he too can monitor the show. Says Larry Blyden: "It's like Big Brother looking over your shoulder. It gives me the willies...
...Rashomon, Kataki, Cry for Happy and The Cool Mikado are all on the way to town. The World of Suzie Wong is pulling in crowds right across the street from Flower Drum...
...Trailing clouds of tryout praise, Archibald MacLeish's J.B. found Manhattan critics in a virtually unanimous yea-saying mood. Said Atkinson: "One of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry . . . The performance is magnificent." Comparing it to Our Town and On Borrowed Time for theatrical effectiveness, John Chapman of the News added: "A magnificent production of a truly splendid play." "Not only beautiful stage poetry," wrote the Post's Richard Watts, "but also a fine drama that is as emotionally moving as it is sensitively thoughtful...