Broadway in 1962 shows profit amid beards and bursts
The 1962 Broadway season featured 44 productions with 28 closing quickly, yet My Fair Lady profited about $10 million. Bearded actors flagged several flops while critics and investors clashed and Rita Hayworth and Myrna Loy missed debuts. Maureen O'Sullivan scored a stage success in Never Too Late.
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Rayburn Hosts New Celebrity Show on TV tomorrow
Rayburn a 10 year veteran of TV game shows headlines a new celebrity and audience participation program starting tomorrow on channels 2 and 5 at 4 p.m. The show will air Monday through Friday with audience participation and a lighthearted game format.
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Lawrence Best Of 62 Movies? Hollywood Picks 1962
AP lists twelve American made films as the year’s meritorious picks led by Lawrence of Arabia and To Kill a Mockingbird. Others include Long Day’s Journey into Night Billy Budd Miracle Worker Music Man Mutiny on the Bounty Freud Counterfeit Traitor Manchurian Candidate Birdman of Alcatraz. The year’s worst is The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Broadway To Have 6 New Ones In January
New York AP reports Broadway will add six new productions in January along with 22 existing musicals dramas and comedies. Post strike advertising lessens mail orders. top shows easier to obtain. Openings include Oliver January 6 Hidden Stranger January 7 Milk Train Doesn t Stop Here Anymore January 10 The School For Scandal January 24 An Evening With Maurice Chevalier and The Hollow Crown January 29. City Center adds Marcel Marceau January 1 for four weeks and Briga jon revival starring Sally Ann Howes for two weeks.
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TV Highlights and Movie Previews on Local Channels
Radio and TV listings summarize tonight’s programming on WPFB stations and CH channels. Highlights include the pro football championship game Giants versus Packers, Burns on Meet the Press, Helen Keller profile, March of Dimes tribute, Lassie dog theft scene, Disney holiday film, Subway in the Sky with Van Johnson, Ed Sullivan puppets at Pedrecca’s, Dinah Shore with Cyd Charisse and Jack Lemmon guest spots.
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