Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before the piece appears in print, her friends will hear excerpts, for anyone within the range of Jean Kerr's voice is a tryout audience. When friends go to see her new hit, Mary, Mary, Broadway's brightest, wittiest play since The Moon Is Blue (Warner Bros, bought it for more than $500,000), they are not surprised to recognize some of the best lines. For Jean Kerr writes as she talks, and she talks all the time. Once, at a party, a tape recording was made of Noel Coward singing; when it was played back, all that could...
...treated by T.S. Eliot and Jean Anouilh. With Anouilh's Becket still running in New York and soon to open in London, Fry tactfully avoided competition, opened his play in an odd setting: the new civic theater at Tilburg, in The Netherlands, where he hoped for a quiet tryout. The fact that the play was given in Dutch would help him, thought Fry. to concentrate less on language than on structure, always his weakness. Hardly a sneak preview, Curtmantle* opened to an audience of 900 (including the Dutch Prime Minister) who found the drama a long way from...
Even before the production's road tryout, there were rumors that it was in trouble, but ANTA Executive Director Willard Swire defended the investment: "Up to New Haven, the show looked most promising; the chorus, usually a good gauge of how it's going, were opening charge accounts, taking leases on apartments." Whatever the chorines thought, Choreographer-turned-Director Bob Fosse was suddenly replaced by veteran Albert Marre, and last week The Conquering Hero opened on Broadway to mostly mediocre reviews. It survived for seven performances...
...much material worthy of the legend is already there, and L. & L. can tell themselves that their show is in no more trouble than many shows in tryout. One prospective first-nighter who declared himself unworried was T. H. White, who will get 1% of the gross, or about $3,000 a month for the life of the show. From his home on the remote Channel island of Alderney, he wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard...
Moving the multicolored pavilions of Camelot toward Broadway, Lerner and Loewe last week were in Boston, bumping into the great shades of past tryout seasons, from Babes in Arms to South Pacific. (Richard Rodgers once swore he would never open so much as a can of sardines without going to Boston first.) A uniquely American practice, the road tryout is as formalized as the judicium Dei the ordeal of the Middle Ages. The road ordeal is by rewriting and cutting, by sleepless nights and interminable waiting, by cold coffee and warm highball, by panicky rumor and wild hope. Severely tested...