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...cutoff), was a late one. But the most recent entry is the one the voters remember best. "Tommy was faced with the decision of whether to have the comfort of another week or two of previews or to open in time to qualify for the Tony," says Producer Zev Bufman, whose own show, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, also lost to "Nine." "He went for drama-the awards or nothing...
Producers claim that audiences have changed too. "TV has spoiled a great number of us," says Producer Zev Bufman. "If we don't hear perfectly, we've just got to reach over and turn it up." Says Producer Hal Prince: "When I first came into the theater, I remember seeing the Lunts, who had wonderful projection and spoke with crystal clarity. But it still took about five minutes before you made the adjustment to hear them properly. Today the public won't do that. People walk around with those Walkman sets on their ears...
...silver-haired political newcomer, she was his superstar hustings-mate and bubbling party-circuit matron. But when she detoured to her Broadway triumph in The Little Foxes, it was reported that those violet eyes began to wander. At one point, she was linked to Foxes Producer Zev Bufman, 51. Bufman, married to his wife Vilma for 23 years, laughed at the reports. Unlike some of Taylor's splits, this one, says her spokeswoman, Chen Sam, seems free of friction: "Each party accepts this change in their relationship with sadness but with no bitterness between them...
...seems likely to be followed on Broadway, where the opening is May 7. The night after an ad appeared in the New York Times, a line began forming outside the Martin Beck Theater; before the week was out nearly $1 million worth of tickets had been sold. Producer Zev Bufman was already making plans to extend the New York run through Labor Day, nine weeks past the previously scheduled July 4 closing date, then take the production to New Orleans, Los Angeles and possibly London as well. "She's the hottest draw I've ever seen!" he exulted...
...great tradition of theatrical producers, Zev Bufman is keeping subtlety in the wings. Witness his attempts to lure Phyllis Star Cloris Leachman into his stage production of Same Time, Next Year. "He sent three dozen roses to the Phyllis set and kept pleading," recalls Leachman, 49. "The last communiqué was: 'Please come or I'll die.' " Cloris relented, along with fellow Phyllis Regular Dick School. The two are now appearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where so far their fans have been mostly older folk. Says Phyllis: "I know, because the intermissions are longer so they...