Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theresa Helburn, one of the directors of the Theatre Guild, stated earlier this week that "The Relapse" will be the third play in the Guild's current subscription season. Tentative plans call for a tryout in Wilmington, Delaware on October 5, followed by a stand in Philadelphia. Plans for the farce call for an October 23 booking at the Cort Theatre in New York...
Both the girl and the broadcaster will be chosen from applicants who apply now to Leo Bersani '52. Tryout for both positions will be conducted next week...
...returned to the stage in 1945 to play the lead in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, quit the cast during the out-of-town tryout, leaving the role (and stardom) to Judy Holliday. For Peter Pan, her first Broadway hit, she studied fencing and ballet, sheared her hair to a near crewcut, left her husky, quavery voice exactly as movie fans have always known...
...texture turns curiously coarse at times, its curtains much too emphatic. Yancy Loper, the conquering parvenu, is conventionalized into an ardent suitor for Lucy's hand; while the profoundly Chekhovian ending, with the old servant thoughtlessly locked up in the deserted house, was dropped during the tryout because audiences seemed "angered...
...ticked off the defendants' alleged sins against free trade. They control 15 of the 32 theaters in New York, seven out of nine in Chicago, two out of three in Detroit, and all the houses in Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. With almost all the tryout towns under their thumb, said the complaint, the Shuberts have forced producers to rent Shubert-controlled theaters in New York by threatening to bar them from out-of-town houses. And when producers take successful shows on the road, it was charged, they have to arrange their tours through...