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Producer-Director Hal Prince attributes Broadway's boffo box office to "a very few very big hit musicals. The moneymen tend to become cautious when they see how huge the profit is with those shows ?and how big a gamble trying anything else is." Producer Alexander H. Cohen puts it another way: "Broadway is too successful. Hit shows are running longer, and there are fewer theaters available than in the past. That makes for a major booking squeeze. With space at a premium, the theater owners may soon be closing shows that are making a profit in order...
...Talent for Murder, Anne Bancroft in Duet for One, Joanne Woodward as Shaw's Candida. And then, and always, there are the musicals. At least 16 have been announced, including one potential gem that begins previews next week: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Hal Prince and based on the 1934 Kaufman and Hart comedy. With Company, Follies and Sweeney Todd, Sondheim and Prince yanked the Broadway musical into the Age of Angst. This time they have dared to move backward?to tell a story in song of some ambitious young people in reverse chronological order...
...make aluminum, for Guyana. If that South American country some day needs a new hydroelectric plant to supply power to an aluminum smelter, the Salomon Bros, wing of the new company could raise the capital for the plant, and the Phibro one would then market the final product. Said Hal H. Beretz, 45, the president of Phibro: "The parts of this merger are unique. There's nothing out there that is going to match this combination." That attitude was the driving force behind last week's merger announcement...
...spared the chilly detached efficiency that can make Henry a Fortinbras or Octavius writ large. This king is not merely admirable but actually likable. In short, Plummer gives us Harry as well as Henry. And the reigning king even betrays vestiges of the unrcined prince Hal from the two previous plays, as when he flicks tennis balls to a couple of courtiers, leaps up into the arms of his uncle Exeter, or delivers 'Forgive me, God' as a kind of self-conscious jest...
DRAGONSLAYER Directed by Matthew Robbins Screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins...