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FINAL DRESS by John Houseman Simon & Schuster; 559pages...
Standing behind a lectern, John Houseman delivers the prologue, and on a June night in 1937, he lived it. It is the saga of a show that very nearly...
...Houseman and Orson Welles were the co-producers of Marc Blitzstein's "labor opera" initially scheduled as an entry of the WPA'S Federal Theater Project. In one of those periodic bouts of political jitters, the Maxine Elliott Theater was closed to Cradle the day before the opening. Ironically, since the show is vociferously pro-union, the musicians' and actors' unions forbade them to play or go onstage...
Thanks to Houseman's pitch-perfect direction and his cast's vibrancy, the evening at off-Broadway's Douglas Fairbanks Theater possesses a blazing vitality. Even bad old Depression days seem like the good old days...
Frank Sinatra. John Houseman. Joe Garagiola. Ricardo Montalban. Chrysler Corp. has hired all of them to tout its cars on television. But the company's premier pitchman is a slightly paunchy, slightly balding 58-year-old who happens to be on the permanent payroll: Chairman Lido Anthony ("Lee") lacocca. "You can go with Chrysler," he booms into the camera, "or you can go with someone else?and take your chances...