The Play’s the Thing Theatrical Voices and Insults
New York critics spar over Loves Captive at the Broadhurst Theatre. Selma Thorne dominates performance with piercing voice while John Truman draws critics’ ire and a dog steals first act. Thorne dismisses critics, praises public adoration and Stephen Strasberg is labelled a charlatan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selmna Thorne
John Truman
Miss Thorne
Miss Thome
Lee Strasberg
Shakespeare
Broadway Season Preview Mixes Lizards and Lobsters
A look at the coming year’s Broadway shows mixing a lizard drama a Joan of Arc musical a transvestite spoof and a boxing horse tale The season features Hamlet a Woodrow Wilson High School football version with Rod McKuen music The Shah an Oz remix Seashore with Kerr Robards Gielgud Hepburn and Ho! The Lobsters musical about two lobsters dancing on shore
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Joan of Arc
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Denmark
Woodrow Wilson High School
Ophelia
Rod McKuen
Edward Albee
Deborah Kerr
Jason Robards
Kerr
Robards
John Gielgud
Katharine Hepburn
Reynolds and Kaye Lobster Soft Shoe Routine
A fragment lists Reynolds and Kaye performing a soft shoe with lobsters and shellfish chorus, mentions Silence a new Pinter play about twin sisters in an old age home with no dialogue, and previews musical and film items including a Mussolini musical and Streisand as Funny Fetus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds
Kaye
Harold Pinter
RCA Records
Benito
Benito Mussolini
Adolph Hitler
Eva Braun
Debbie Reynolds
Danny Kaye
Barbra Streisand
Fanny Brice
Fanny
Private Lives at the Theatre Aims for Style and Spark
A review of a production of Private Lives highlights Niki Flacks as Sybil and Penelope Smith as Amanda delivering extravagant performances. John Standing as Elyot struggles with magnetism, while Victor’s portrayer and the supporting duo are tagged as underwhelming. The piece lauds Smith’s flamboyant presence despite uneven casting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyot
Amanda
Sybil
Victor
Private Lives
Niki Flacks
Flacks
John Standing
Falstaff
Gloucester
Standing
Smith
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Selina Thorne
Thorne
Broadhurst Theatre
New York Magazine
Mr. Strasberg
Jester
Joel Grey
Will Brain
Ee Ees
Dorothy
To-tosan
Canton
Emerald City
Shanghai
To-to San
By Jane Jones
Remak Ramsay
Maggie Smith