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Post by Pippen on Jun 28, 2023 17:26:29 GMT
HARVEYBroadway Premiere THEATRE48th Street Theatre OPENING NIGHT Nov 1, 1944 TOTAL PERFORMANCES 1,775 ORIGINAL CAST Frank Fay, Josephine Hull, Dora Clement, Robert Gist, Frederica Going, Lawrence Hayes, John Kirk, Fred Irving Lewis, Tom Seidel, Eloise Sheldon, Janet Tyler, Jane Van Duser, Jesse White DIRECTOR Antoinette Perry (The TONY Award is named after Antoinette !) PRODUCER Brock Pemberton
1950
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Post by Pippen on Jun 28, 2023 17:28:20 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 28, 2023 19:00:48 GMT
I so wish I could have seen this Broadway production, Pippen. Great cast. And playwright Robert Anderson and Teresa Wright were married at that time.
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 28, 2023 19:15:51 GMT
One more by playwright Robert Anderson: On Broadway it was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, and Leif Erickson, who Vincent Minnelli wisely brought to the screen version. Would have loved to have seen that one, too.
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Post by Teleadm on Jun 29, 2023 6:34:02 GMT
The Matchmaker 1958. Based on a 1954 Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers. Ruth Gordon played Dolly Levy on Broadway and by Shirley Booth in the movie. Then it became a Broadway musical 1964, Hello Dolly!, with Carol Channing as Dolly, and that too became a movie in 1969 with Barbra Streisand as Dolly.
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Post by Teleadm on Jun 29, 2023 6:50:25 GMT
Auntie Mame 1958. Based on a 1956 Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee that was based on a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis. Rosalind Russell played Mame both on Broadway and in the movie. It was developed into the 1966 Broadway musical Mame starring Angela Lansbury as Mame, and a 1974 movie with Lucille Ball as Mame.
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Post by Teleadm on Jun 29, 2023 6:58:30 GMT
Life with Father 1947. Based on a 1939 Broadway play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day. Howard Lindsay played Father on Broadway while William Powell played Father in the movie. The Broadway production ran for 3,224 performances over 401 weeks to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record that it still holds.
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Post by theravenking on Jun 29, 2023 11:59:13 GMT
I have to admit having never seen the play, which some say is superior to the movie. Nonetheless I just find Larry Olivier utterly delightful as Andrew Wyke. And what a marvellous location Wyke's home is, ever since first watching this as a kid I've been dreaming of living in a house like this.
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Post by Pippen on Jun 29, 2023 12:06:03 GMT
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Post by Pippen on Jun 29, 2023 12:09:48 GMT
I encountered Zero Mostel after a performance and he insisted on autographing my Playbill ! VERY strange man. Treasured memory ! VERY very strange play !!!!!! Have not seen the movie!
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Post by Pippen on Jun 29, 2023 12:14:03 GMT
Book to stage to screen to stage to screen and back again many many times and yet it is on many "banned lists" ! Broderick Crawford as Lennie !
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Post by Teleadm on Jun 29, 2023 16:57:06 GMT
Arsenic and Old Lace 1944. Based on a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring.It opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the play moved to the Hudson Theatre, closing there on June 17, 1944, having played 1,444 performances. Allyn Joslyn played Mortimer Brewster on Broadway while Cary Grant played Mortimer in the 1944 movie. Jean Adair as Martha Brewster, Josephine Hull as Abby Brewster and John Alexander as Teddy Brewster played the same roles on Broadway and in the movie.
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Post by Teleadm on Jun 29, 2023 17:05:42 GMT
The Corn is Green 1945. Based on a 1938 semi-autobiographical play by Welsh dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams. The play premiered in London at the Duchess Theatre in September 1938 with Sybil Thorndike as Miss Moffat, the West End production ran in all for 600 performances. The original Broadway production starred Ethel Barrymore as Miss Moffat and premiered at the National Theatre in November 1940, running for 477 performances. Bette Davis played Miss Moffat in the movie.
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 29, 2023 23:33:46 GMT
This beautiful film, one of my favorites, is an adaptation of Tad Mosel's Pulitzer Prize winning play, which he adapted from James Agee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "A Death in the Family." The play premiered on Broadway at the Belasco Theater on November 30, 1960, and closed on September 15, 1961, after 333 performances. Directed by Arthur Penn, the cast featured Colleen Dewhurst, Lillian Gish, and Arthur Hill. Would love to have seen it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2023 13:14:20 GMT
An Inspector Calls written by English author J.B. Priestly. I watched it at the local theater as an adolescent. There are many film adaptations existing. This is the TVM I accidentally found on Arte:
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