Word: ulceration
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lyric beat, TIME Toronto Bureau Chief Kenneth Froslid, concentrating on Alan Lerner, attended 13 performances, had to explain to autograph seekers that he was not Roddy McDowall. His biggest worry came when his subject was rushed to Toronto's Wellesley Hospital with a bleeding ulcer, but the physician did grudgingly allow three visitors: Lerner's wife, his collaborator and Fros-lid. When the lyricist returned twelve days later, Froslid was alongside-car-rying the Thermos bottle full of milk. By the time Froslid had completed his comprehensive interview, Lerner quipped, "Now that you are gone...
Still on everyone's mind was the trouble that had very nearly turned Camelot from a musical into a medical. In Toronto, where the show opened six weeks ago, Lerner led off with a bleeding ulcer, was in hospital for ten days. Director Moss Hart followed with a coronary thrombosis (his second), went off to the same hospital, same room, and indefinitely out of Camelot...
...Aggravate & Friend. With Author Lerner, ulcer and all, doubling for sorely missed Director Hart but too busy re-writing to spend much time in the theater Camelot moved forward of its own weight, only slightly trimmed from its original 3 hr. 40 min., while the mood of the cast settled into general uncertainty. Knights were complaining that their chain mail was wearing out and tempers were wearing out too. When a dancer tripped over a piece of scenery last week, Set Designer Smith was heard to snap: "I hope you broke your leg." Novice squires were learning from cynical...
...tickets, the biggest advance sale in Broadway history. Producers L. and L. hesitate to advertise, fearing a further deluge of money. Other troubles beset the Camelot team. In the midst of his cutting and rewriting chores. Alan Jay Lerner went to the hospital with a bleeding ulcer,* and Director Hart learned of the death of his 97-year-old father in Miami, retired to his hotel room for three days with nervous fatigue. As for the show itself. Composer Loewe had armored himself in a metaphor. "When you see it." he warned visitors just before curtain time, "remember that when...
...Fidel Castro-arms waving, beard wagging, voice rising and falling with rage-stormed out of the hotel with his pileous crew pounding after him. Behind him he left a string of rooms soaked with cigar smoke, strewed .with molding food, and torn asunder-and Owner Spatz with his ulcer acting up again...