Word: tuxedoed
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...patrons of the New York legitimate theater. Playbill Magazine is as familiar a fixture as the man in the tuxedo taking tickets at the door, or the middle-aged lady peddling watery orangeade between the acts. During the season, ushers in 35 theaters-all but the off-Broadway houses -distribute some 240,000 copies of Playbill every week. Although each copy costs the publisher 9?, and although Playbill must pay each theater for the privilege of circulating there, the program costs the theatergoer nothing. Playbill does such a thriving business on Broadway that it has decided to go national. Beginning...
Evans is dressed in a tuxedo, Miss Haves in an evening gown (green in the first half, black in the second) occasionally pieced out with a shawl or cap. The all-purpose setting, by Don Shirley, consists of a platform with a bench and two stools, and a backdrop flat...
Sticking his right hand under his tuxedo jacket behind his back is not enough to create the malevolent, hunchbacked Richard III. Nor has he the brio for Henry V. In Macbeth's "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'were well/It were done quickly," etc., he follows the idiotic example of Kemble, Macready and Irving by making a full stop after 'well' and joining the rest to the next sentence. And from time to time to time Warren Enters, the director, allows Evans to lapse into his annoying mannerism of indulging in quavering drops of pitch at-phrases' ends...
...because of your talent.' " He also disperses a shower of eccentricities. He makes his own breakfast, tossing two bananas, three eggs, half a pint of milk and some Bosco into a Waring Blendor. He flies kites. He wears cowboy boots with his tuxedo. He drives a silver 390-h.p. Facel-Vega sports car. "I've had beers in every kind of bar in this country." he drawls, "and I've raced with every kind of hood on the road...
...three songs the tuxedo-clad quartet did best were among the oldest in their repertoire Nobody sings Good Night, Irene like the Weavers, and they make it sound like a fresh song each time they perform it. Hays suggested the audience join in on the other set of words for the same tune--Roll On Columbia--but the idea was greeted with hisses by sports fans in the crowd. It was a pleasure to hear Wimoweh swung again in a musical fashion. The recent "popular" transcription of the South African song is pretty awful, and sounds even worse in comparison...