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...moved audiences with such plays as David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, Jason Miller's That Championship Season and Richard Wesley's The Black Terror. In a season when even the tune seems to have gone out of other musicals, Papp's Two Gentlemen of Verona, a high-spirited rock romp, has been a huge success. A kind of joke among his more profit-conscious colleagues a few years ago, Papp now has one of the hottest tickets in town in Two Gents. To multiply his injury to Broadway's pride, this year his plays...
...characteristic of all of the plays that Papp produces-including a few that are just plain awful-is a kind of animal energy and movement. Miller's Championship Season, for example, moves so fast that though it sometimes pants from exhaustion, it never bores. While Two Gentlemen of Verona received a few negative reviews with the raves, including one from TIME'S T.E. Kalem, it does have an undeniable vitality...
...revenues of $9,000,000 to $11 million), Papp seems on firmer ground than ever before. The principle of public subsidy has been firmly established, with a $350,000 contribution from the city, $200,000 from New York State and $100,000 from Washington. Beyond that, Two Gentlemen of Verona, which started as a four-week production in the park last summer, has become the biggest money earner on Broadway and its profits keep alive such worthy but unprofitable plays as Sticks and Bones, until they find an audience of their...
...Five in December.) One of 15 children born to a Baptist preacher, Davis grew up outside of Boston, once cleaned hamburger stands for a living and, like Moore, got his acting start in a Broadway chorus. At 26, he is a star of Broadway's Two Gentlemen of Verona...
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