Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people to stop swallowing the pap these mediocrities are churning out." But as a prosecution witness in the obscenity trial of the raunchy off-Broadway sex-and-protest farce Che!, the Broadway tycoon churned out some pretty potent criticism of his own: "Patently offensive, vulgar, lewd and very dull." Playwright Lennox Raphael, in Merrick's view, "had no talent whatsoever and should seek vocational guidance...
Shortly before his election to France's august Academic Franchise, Eugene Ionesco, playwright of the bizarre, opened a grab-bag entertainment called Inedits Ionesco on the Left Bank. The collection of sketches and fragments was favorably received. Still, several seats were left unsold; indeed, they were not for sale. Ionesco insisted on sprinkling the audience with human-size dummies of dogs, cats and jackasses...
...thing that he will not do, however, is move from his three-room Greenwich Village apartment. All his friends live on his block, he says-Terrence McNally, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Drivas, the actor, and Playwright Israel Horowitz. "We get together once a week to play poker. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else." Which sounds about as Barney Cashman as a guy can get and still be James Coco...
...success of Playwright Neil Simon is not only incredible; it is awe-inspiring. He is only 42; yet his string of Broadway hits runs like a theatrical What's What: Come Blow Your Horn (1961), Little Me (1962), Barefoot in the Park (1963), The Odd Couple (1965), Sweet Charity (1966), The Star-Spangled Girl (1966), Plaza Suite (1968), Promises, Promises (1968) and Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969). And now Last of the Red Hot Lovers has joined Plaza and Promises to give him three shows running simultaneously on Broadway...
...Playwright Samuel Taylor wrote Topaz's unimportant screenplay, and Maurice Jarre composed the nifty musical score...