Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council proposal will get what promises to be a thorough tryout. The Twentieth Century Fund, a small but prestigious nonprofit foundation, announced last week that it was creating a group with two missions: 1) to investigate and report on allegations against major news organizations and 2) to attempt to speak for the press when it is threatened by official restrictions. The project is the result of an 18-month study by 14 jurists, educators and newsmen.* They proposed establishment of a 15-member council comprising journalists and others yet to be named. The chairman will be former California Chief Justice...
There are moments in Ron Field's revival of the show, now in a pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert, when the fears and melancholy surface--in distinct contrast to the prevailing air of foolishness and mock sophistication. Certainly most disturbing is the weirdly undefined dream sequence in the second act when Gabey imagines Miss Turnstyles as an unobtainable socialite, surrounded by Ronald Searle-like caricatures of the rich. But for the most part this revival's spirits are too blithe. It strives for a simple-minded innocence when real recognition of the forties' blend of hell-bent pleasure...
Last month, after only two-and-a-half weeks of kicking a pigskin, Gomez signed a contract with the New England Patriots. "I went to their scout and asked him for a tryout. I kicked field goals for about 40 minutes, and he was very impressed," Gomez said...
OLLIES, Harold Prince's latest contribution to the musical comedy revolution, made many friends and enemies during its five-week tryout run in Boston. Upon moving to Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre, it became the most controversial musical to reach the great white way in years. Now, a month after its opening, the New York Times is still running an article each Sunday in their drama section covering some aspect of the show or its critics. Follies was also the cover story of Time a couple of weeks ago and Variety reports that it is doing just fine financially...
...team headed by John Elson was at work on the cover story. It was written by Stefan Kanfer, our movie critic, making one of his frequent forays into Broadway territory, and with good reason: he is a sometime playwright. Five years ago, Alexis Smith starred in a pre-Broadway tryout of Kanfer's comedy, The Coffee Lover...