Friday Theater Listings Show Opening Weekend Variety
The Friday schedule lists theater runs and showtimes across venues. Paramount offers Hard Contract with shorts. Iowa presents Winning. World debuts Faces with shorts. Times presents Funny Girl. Plaza features The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with matinee. Marion showcases Incredible Journey and Smith with times. Collins Drive-In shows The Devil’s Eight and Targets. Twixt Town screens The Dirty Dozen and Grand Prix.
Producer Dies in New York at 77
Vinton Freedley, 77, famed Broadway producer associated with Anything Goes and Girl Crazy, died Thursday. He led the Actors Fund of America and the Episcopal Actors Guild of America as president.
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Peculiarity Ballad Opera Defined in England
A ballad opera is a form of opera peculiar to England, distinctive for its use of spoken dialogue interwoven with musical numbers and its emphasis on accessible, popular tunes rather than grand arias.
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Faces review by critic amid Cassavetes film controversy
The Walter Reade release Faces stars John Marley Gena Rowlands Lynn Carlin and Seymour Cassel and shows at World Playhouse rated X with under 17 not admitted. Critics praise it as groundbreaking yet one writer finds it dull and grainy a harsh study of marital boredom amid avant garde realism.
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The Pre tenders sparks Hollywood bidding and buzz
Hollywood studios chase film rights likely exceeding 300000 for Gwen Davis novel The Pre tenders. The central figure mirrors Billy Rose, yet Davis says it portrays the American dream and money power in romance. Otto Preminger and Don Mitchell are linked to the book. Diahann Carroll headlines at the Sands. nurses send bouquets. Friars Club Roast for Phil Silvers looms large with Berle and Burns. Karl Malden shoots Patton in Spain. Geraldine Page comments on violence in drama.
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