Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks at nothing but himself, his own emotional wants, his own sexual satisfactions, none of which is now news to any of us, and may for once, please God, be considered boring to other people. I am tired of love and love and love. And when I see a play like Suddenly, Last Summer or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, I recognize that its chief appeal to those of us in the audience who are not homosexuals is that it offers a touch of 'rebellion' or 'depravity' . . . The philistines at the play used...
...shield against dull social obligations to the plight of the poor chap whose origins are unknown because he was found in a Gladstone bag in Victoria Station. Now and then guilty of unfortunate lapses of taste, the lyrics for the most part graft smoothly onto the play, as in a superbly haughty number called A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother...
...musical play in an off-Broadway theater used to be as out of place as a Rolls-Royce in a one-car garage. Exceptions came along: Once Upon a Mattress climbed the magic money tree to Broadway, and The Threepenny Opera revival is now five years old and practically a city park. But overwhelmingly, the tenpenny impresarios preferred to stick to drama, shying from competition with Broadway's big, corporate musicals, which approach high finance with their million-dollar advance sales and use stars whose fees recall the lifetime winnings of Whirlaway. This season, the off-Broadway producers finally...
...Sacco-Vanzetti Story (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Presented on this and the following Friday, Reginald Rose's two-part play about Sacco and Vanzetti (Martin Balsam and Steven Hill) begins with the 1920 murder of a South Braintree, Mass, paymaster and payroll guard, traces the arrests and courtroom scenes that were played out before the attention of the world, as many felt that the immigrant defendants were more on trial for their anarchistic beliefs than for murder...
Duel of Angels. The icy virtue of Mary Ure, as a self-righteous Lucrece, is soon broken by the vice of Vivien Leigh, in a glowing performance of Jean Giraudoux's last play...