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Theatre Briefs and Arts News Highlights
Broadway musical Jimmy depicting Mayor Walker with Frank Gorshin set to star opens this fall directed by Joseph Anthony with Peter Gennaro as choreographer. ANTA Bishop Awards grant cash to three young playwrights Ransom Jeffrey Frank M Mosier Richard Cook for plays The Guest The Duchess of Santiago Charlie Bay. Universal Studios buys film rights to The Last Usher by Charles Webb, also holding Love, Roger. Fiddler on the Roof touring expands with two national companies and 2,000th Broadway performance. All About Eve musical with Lauren Bacall at center.
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New York
Jimmy Walker
Jimmy
Frank Gorshin
Anita Gillette
Melville Shavelson
Bill
Patti Jacob
Joseph Anthony
Peter Gennaro
American National Theatre and Academy
ANTA
Webb Hollywood
Universal Studios
Charles Webb
Hubert Arthur
Mladin Zarubica
Universal
Webb
Love
Roger
Honolulu
Hawaii
District of Columbia
ALL About
Lauren Bacall
Margo Channing
Bette Davis
Betty Camden
Adolph Green
Charles Strouse
Lee Adams