All Over opens on Broadway with Albee’s dark domestic theater
Edward Albee's All Over at the Martin Beck draws mixed reviews as critics split on its mock religious, abstract realism and sharp dialogue. Performances by Jessica Tandy Colleen Dewhurst Madeleine Sherwood and James Ray anchor a crowded cast led by John Gielgud with Reuben Ter Arutunian's set.
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Edward Albee
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Jessica Tandy
Colleen Dewhurst
Madeleine Sherwood
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Wealth
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Betty Field
Neil Fitzgerald
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Critics Laud Play’s Poignant Short Life Kernel
Clive Barnes of the New York Times calls the work lovely and deeply felt while noting its evident artifice heightens the impact of life’s brief kernel of reality. Stewart Klein of WNEW TV contributes thoughts.
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How the Other Half Loves Opens at Broadway Royale
Dennis and Silvers star in the London comedy about extramarital affairs and overlapping scenes. The gimmick shows separate couples’ mishaps in overlapping vignettes staged in a single setting with light, farcical gags.
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British farce at Royale draws mixed TV critics
Edwin Newman questions importing such plays while Leonard Harris praises the energetic, expert cast though faults the production. The Times calls it a decent but insignificant farce, and Jack Gaver says audiences can leave Royale theater laughing uproariously after a sober start.
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Singer Will Keep Promise to Sing at Wedding
Philadelphia baritone Tom Pizzica who has sung at weddings for 17 years promised Miss America 1969 Judith Ann Ford he would sing at her wedding. Ford will wed Edwin C. Johnson on August 14 in Rockford Illinois and asked Pizzica to sing the Lord's Prayer at the Rockford Baptist church.
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Cash Puts Freeze on Accountant Amid Bank Fund Claims
Nashville AP reports a temporary restraining order bars former accountant Herman A. Clark from removing funds from local banks. The suit, brought by Johnny Cash, alleges Clark and his wife diverted more than 300 thousand dollars into three private accounts over the past year and seeks recovery of nearly 304 thousand.
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