Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following The Price into the Wilbur will be Angela (October 13), a new comedy by the idiot who wrote Never Too Late. This pre-Broadway tryout will star Geraldine Page, God help...
...Colonial has opened with a David Merrick tryout, The Penny Wars, written by Elliott Baker and directed by a beautiful actress-comedian named Barbara Harris. Two fine actors, George Voskovec and Kim Hunter, head the cast-but the Boston notices and rampant trade gossip indicate the show is in serious pre-Broadway trouble...
...Broadway play Little Murders and the Broadway musical 1776 looked ready to be counted among the losers before they opened. The former had already failed once in New York (on Broadway in 1967, when it flopped in seven performances); the latter got mediocre reviews during its road tryout, had no big names among its cast or credits, and opened in New York to almost no advance ticket sales...
...just how cruel society is. But it's an unconvincing argument. No matter how we hide it, it is the fags--and the fags alone--whom we are deriding. That's how audiences work. A few years ago, the musical Cabaret learned something similar during its Boston tryout. One mock love song between the ghoulish and decadent German emcee and a fake gorilla ended with the emcee assuring us, "And if you could see her through my eyes, she wouldn't look Jewish at all!" Immediately we laughed. Brilliant! The audience had been forced into the anti-Semitic posture...
Schull, a springy pivot man from Florida State, bypassed an N.B.A. tryout three years ago to join the Phillips 66ers in the A.A.U. league. Then, at the end of last season, the Phillips team was disbanded...