Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case is much the same with most of the other six incumbents in the race. Though their anti-rent control position may hurt them a little, Walter J. Sullivan (Ind.) and Edward A. Crane '35 (CCA) will probably top the ticket again and win election on the first round with votes from their respective bases among lower-income Irish and more affluent Irish. Vellucci will sweep up East Cambridge "number ones," add a few votes from Sullivan's surplus, get some more when weaker Italian and Portuguese candidates are eliminated, and make it into the winner's circle after...
...shows how many of the large number of homosexual American playwrights write dishonest pieces of camp to manipulate heterosexual audiences. He explains the way producers pander to New York's large Jewish theatre-going audience. He writes about the egos (Mike Nichols) and the back-stabbers (Sandy Dennis), the ticket-scalping and the waste, the disasters ( Mate Hair ) and the hits (Plaza Suite...
Nothing is happening because Broadway is too expensive these days to gamble with. The serious theatre-going audience has been scared away by the high ticket-prices and the high number of numbing commercial hits they have sat through for too many years. American playwrights have either deserted or been deserted by money-scared Broadway producers; they are going off or off-off Broadway- or into regional theatres like Washington's Arena Stage and Dallas' Margo Jones...
There is probably nothing to be done. Every day plans are being made to tear down Broadway theaters and replace them with parking lots and office buildings. Producers are going to the movies or the stock market or off-Broadway (where, oddly enough, ticket prices are now more or less at Broadway levels and the quick Broadway-style flop is becoming more and more common). A few years ago a producer had about a one-in-nine chance of coming up with a hit; now the odds are closer to twenty...
...this goes not only for the gentleman at the Ticket Office. I'm also talking about some of the ladies at our dining rooms who stand in mortal terror lest Bumble the Beadle see them giving us more than our ration of roast-beef...