Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorts of things have been added: fantasy, turgid humor, breathless monologues. "It's happening, Moss, all of it . . . It's all true!" Hamilton whispers to himself. But the muse that spurred Moss Hart to fame has clearly strayed. If this were an out-of-town tryout, the closing notice would have gone up in Boston. As they say on the Main Stem, Act One needs work...
...Mackerel Plaza, a pre-Broadway tryout of a new comedy by William Mc-Cleery, is based on Peter De Vries's novel about a widowed clergyman whose plans to remarry are frustrated by a campaign to name the town square after his first wife. Hal (Mark Twain) Holbrook stars. Cyril Ritchard directs. Westport. Conn.; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Louisville...
...Didn't Say Yes is a tryout of Lonnie Coleman's comedy set in Greenwich Village, which has Joan Hackett caught in a triangle with her editor husband (William Redfield) and her novelist sister (Joan Caulfield). Mountainhome. Pa.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Laconia. N.H.; Falmouth. Mass.: Fitchburg. Mass...
This year experimental farmers are conducting the first large-scale tryout of mechanized plasticulture. A tractor huffs across the field trailing a 20-in. band of black film from a big roll. Two disks cut furrows under the film's edges, rubber wheels press the edges down, and another pair of disks covers them with soil. Planting is done by hollow cone-shaped spikes that punch holes in the film 8 in. apart and insert slugs of moist vermiculite (puffed-up mica) that contain a cottonseed and carefully calculated doses of fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide. Snuggled in the warmth...
Perhaps no theater is large enough to hold the White Whale, and Welles intelligently lets audience imagination do the work of stage realism. He conceives of a turn-of-the-century acting troupe doing a sort of tryout rehearsal of a new drama, Moby Dick. A tall ladder serves for a mast, benches for longboats, and furled and swaying sails complete the Nantucket whaler Pequod. Pages of the novel are cut to stage cues, and the second and final act cuts to the mortal sea chase, which Director Douglas Campbell handles with brisk and believable intensity...