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...like a plant that?s been watered" (Marlene Dietrich). "It?s like meeting God without dying" (Dorothy Parker). He landed in the American consciousness like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, his prodigious youth the stuff of theatrical legend: playing at Dublin?s Gate and Abbey Theatres at 16, starring on Broadway at 19, forming his own theater at 21. And then he outstripped that early promise with an achievement glorious and voluptuous...
...Moorehead,William Alland, Paul Stewart - had worked with Welles on radio. Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of "Kane," had penned several "Campbell Playhouse" episodes, including "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and "Huckleberry Finn." Houseman, who midwifed the "Kane" script, effectively produced the radio shows while Welles made mischief on Broadway or in Hollywood. Herrmann, the "Kane" composer, went way back with Orson. Much of the densely layered "Kane" sound track is an echo of effects and vo-cal tricks from "Mercury" and "Campbell." The first words to be seen in Welles? first feature film are "A Radio Picture...
...CHANCE Remember that Welles was running the Mercury stage op-eration, starring in many of its productions and guesting on radio shows. "Les Mis?rables" came just a month after "The Cradle Will Rock." The "War of the Worlds" episode preceded the Broadway opening of the Mercury?s "Danton?s Death" by three nights. Before the sponsor agreed to move "Campbell Playhouse" from New York to Los Angeles, where Welles was preparing his first Hollywood film, he pulled a weekly transcontinental commute - logging, according to one account, an amazing 311,245 air miles and earning a frequent flyer award...
...part of my life in the last couple of years. Hell, I’m the theatre editor. And this summer I got to see shows on the West End of London, in the Kennedy Center in Washington, at an outdoor amphitheatre in the D.C. area, on and off-Broadway, at a barn in Vermont (featuring my blockmate, Samuel H. Perwin ’04, who makes a dashing Harold Hill), and at a regional theatre on Long Island. And what was the number one theatrical experience of the summer? Well, I’ll be writing a column...
...CALLED TO THE BAR: Everybody is famous for something, it seems. And Toby Cecchini has the distinction of having revived the cocktail known as the Cosmopolitan. Naturally, that entitles him to a book contract. This week, PW reports that Broadway has bought the story of Cecchini's life behind the bar at New York's Odeon. They hope that the book "can make the kind of splash for bartending that Anthony Bourdain did for the restaurant kitchen in 'Kitchen Confidential...