Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helps that this is one of Shaw's finer plays. While Barbara Undershaft (Jane Alexander), who does the Christian God's goodly work among the poor, owns the play's title, it is her munitions tycoon of a father, Andrew (Lee Richardson), wielding the twin thunderbolts of "money and gunpowder," who is the capitalistic Zeus. Shaw himself had a Caesar complex. He was fascinated by absolute power and that explained his deplorable temporary enthusiasms for Hitler and Stalin. But his Undershaft is of another breed. This merchant of death is also an apostle of life...
...does Lewis Hoaglund, the conglomerate tycoon who likes to fire people as brutally as possible, have a huge machine in his backyard that has no function except to clank and sputter...
There is one other thing keeping Wilson from retirement. Inside the dynamic, socially committed tycoon lurks a youngster who never quite got over his love affair with land. "There's no one who loves land more than me," he admits. For that kind of man, no job in the world could offer more: a chance to chase daylight round the world, clambering over hills, slogging through rain forests, stalking through prairie grass in a never-ending hunt for the perfect motel site, Kemmons Wilson's ultimate golden...
...away, you're all too young for me, and you don't let me get on with my business," said Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 66, to a clutch of newswomen in Teheran, as he arrived for some oil talks with the Shah. But Jacqueline Onassis, 42, doing her sightseeing and shopping thing, answered without hesitation when a woman reporter asked her if she is the same sort of person today as when she was married to President Kennedy. "I am today what I was yesterday and, with luck, will be tomorrow," she replied. "I am a woman...
Director Guy Rochman is the moving force at every level of this production and the whole is a triumph of his perfectionism. Rochman created the Company and is its tycoon; every asset is well capitalized with profit sharing all around. There's the orchestra which was superb. Musical Director T. Edward Johnson has put a sea of music on cue but with a restraint that kept the pit from overwhelming the performers even when the score was at its most turbulent. The four performers (one of whom is Rochman) were not only disciplined but inspired...