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B’approach revives & thrives
Be nonetheless my coronary heart — it’s coming Tony time. I haven’t been this excited since somebody served me farina.
I imply: Up for one other but one more, nonetheless again one other “Death of a Salesman”? Hasn’t this man completely handed away but? He’s obtained more statuettes than Arlington. And cats? More “Cats”? Now the “Jellicle Ball” cats. Soon the grandsons of the these Jellicle pussies. Audiences they need? AARP they need.
Comes the true thrill. Up for three awards since we barked at its unique film in 1975, “Dog Day Afternoon.” A real mazel tov.
Up for 5 awards — 5, that’s 5, cinco, cinq — FIVE — is — oh, be nonetheless my coronary heart — a Twenties Noël Coward factor about love, life, lust and who cares as a result of now even grammar faculty youngsters are into that within the john earlier than geography class. Been no new Noël Coward factor since his bar mitzvah.
“Titanique”? St. James Theatre. Four nominations. Stars the great Marla Mindelle so it needs to be great. Because she’s great. Ungreat is that it already did its factor virtually 10 years in the past.
New? Like what beside the costs. In previous days, cheapos would tip the women’ room matron a quarter. There’s now ticket costs, transportation prices, dinner prices, intermission drinks, which come to about what your divorced partner is getting. Leave a quarter and your toilet tissue may immediately be your cashmere.
1913 vaudeville crashed into our lives with Sophie Tucker, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Russell, Eva Tanguay, Harry Houdini. Twenty minutes later got here John Barrymore whose relative Drew nonetheless pirouettes on what as soon as was TV. Also we obtained Katharine Cornell.
Along comes probably the initial rewrite of the first draft of the primary crayoned model of “Death of a Salesman.” Back then it was in all probability “Flu of a Shoemaker.”
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Comes fashionable days. “Guys and Dolls,” “The King And I,” “The Seven Year Itch,” Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn, Joe Biden’s two hundredth birthday. Also Rex Harrison, one other rererevival of “Pal Joey.” A rereresurrection of “Candida” flopped. But we obtained “South Pacific.” We didn’t get “The Hormuz Strait,” however, then, no one’s obtained the Hormuz Strait.
Listen, some people are so desperate to be in showbiz that I do know one man who noticed an advert in a theatrical paper that mentioned: “Wanted. Human Cannonball. Must be able to travel.” And he utilized.
Joking on an elite degree
Meanwhile, Conan O’Brien who honed his theatrics on the Harvard Lampoon — class of ’85 — mentioned to some Broadwayite: “I miss Harvard Square. Nowhere else will you find a man in a turban wearing a Red Sox jacket while working in a lesbian bookstore.” I imply, the person has requirements. His literary thesis was on early senility.
One more on Conan simply because I occur to have it. When he requested a {hardware} man how jumper cables work the man mentioned: “And you graduated from Harvard?”
So one author murdered a comedian in his column. But by no means talked about the man’s title. The comedian threatened to sue. “But,” a buddy mentioned, “he didn’t mention your name.” “That’s it,” he complained, “Nobody’ll know it’s me!”
Only in New York, youngsters, solely in New York.
