Word: skyscraperism
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A section of the stage at the arena-styled ANTA Washington Square Theater has been tilted up so that the playing area resembles a giant record turntable, and since the actors burst into song every few minutes, it sometimes seems as if an invisible disk jockey were directing the play...
Of all the musicals aimed for Broadway this fall, only two have so far survived critical stoning: Skyscraper, starring Julie Harris, and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, with another Harris girl, Barbara.
Seedling Woman. Now, as always, the essence of Julie Harris is vulnerability-the kind of poignant, feminine helplessness that makes every man in the audience want to reach out and right things for her. Now, as always, it is the little girl against the big odds-in Skyscraper she is...
Throughout her career, with the same diminutive voice and figure ("If I had a bosom," she once declared, "I could rule the world"), Julie Harris has been a world of women. In her first triumph 15 years ago, she was twelve-year-old Frankie in The Member of the Wedding...
Perhaps because of the city's notorious ill winds, Chicago architects have long kept its structures to lowly heights of 500 and 600 ft. while New York handily took the first eight places in the world's skyscrapers sweepstakes. But now Chicago has entered the race. Last week...