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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...
...college fullbacks, Poage probably will be shifted to slotback in the pros: he is too light to run the tackles. Michigan State's George Saimes, 21(5 ft. 10 in., 186 lbs.), is also underweight, but his fierce blocking and tackling will earn him a pro tryout. "Saimes may not have size," says one scout, "but by God he's got guts...
Published in 1785, Boswell's Tour proved a sort of tryout for the Life that appeared six years later. But the published Tour varied considerably from the actual journal that Boswell kept, most of which turned up a generation ago in a croquet box at an Irish castle. First brought out in 1936. the journal is now reprinted with much supplementary mate rial drawn from documents that have since come to light. Densely annotated, the present volume is as formidable as Johnson, but much of it, freed of foot notes, is also as chatty as only Boswell could...
Broadway producers are tiring of the traditional tryout towns; they are, after all, so close to New York. When a heavy wind blows south from Boston or New Haven, it too often carries to Manhattan an unpleasant odor that bodes ill for the play heading for Broadway. Moreover, in the super-envious world of the theater, too many good old friends from around 44th Street like to flock to the nearby roadshows in gleeful hopes of bottling the last gasp...
Accordingly, some 1962-63 shows have been holding their tryouts pretty far afield. The Perfect Set-Up, a comedy by Jack Sher about a Manhattan businessman whose wife and mistress are both contented girls, opens next month in Phoenix and will skip around among cities in the middle, mountain and far western states before opening on Broadway Oct. 24. All sorts of shows will be pussyfooting through the recently discovered Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto belt. Oliver!, English Composer-Lyricist Lionel Bart's musical based on Oliver Twist, has already begun its U.S. tryout in Los Angeles; it opens in Manhattan...