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John Lahr
American
Critic
Born:
Jul 12
,
1941
Life
Made
Sweet
Theatre
Time
You
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In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.
John Lahr
Life
Dark
Walk
Dark Side
Sweet
Birdie
Side
Reckless
Musical
Introduced
Citizens
Dress
Had
Mostly
West
West Side
West Side Story
Orange
Ohio
Where
Story
Turquoise
Apparently
Bright
Apple
Set
Bye
His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
John Lahr
Life
Long
Living
Inside
Like
His
Egg
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.
John Lahr
Life
News
Old
Broadway
Exaggerated
New
Demise
Although
Deathbed
Lot
Greatly
Times
Tart
York
New York
New York Times
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.
John Lahr
You
Fly
Three
Half
Sugar
Local
Broadway
Broadway Show
Boost
More
Area
Road
Attendance
Economy
Ticket
Talking
Yearly
Sales
Metropolitan
Sell
Times
Where
Explanation
Gross
Show
Shows
Awards
Needed
Plays
Tony
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.
John Lahr
Knowledge
You
Trust
Theatre
People
Uncle
Few
Adaptive
Everyone
Must
About
Only
Remain
Pick
Know
Look
Stick
Opinion
How
His
Fix
Taste
Where
Process
Place
Sane
Production
Show
Who
Whose
Species
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.
John Lahr
Together
Sports
Broadway
Draw
Broadway Shows
Put
Attendance
New
Times
York
New York
Teams
Shows
Two
'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.'
John Lahr
Drama
Watershed
Lyrical
Approaches
Williams
Composed
Angels
Tennessee
Glass
Since
Most
Era
Proved
Ambitious
America
Which
Millennium
Two
Plays
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
John Lahr
Life
Work
Meets
Uncertain
Imperfect
Write
Writer
Writers
Self
Know
Reader
Always
Authoritative
Mean
Them
Page
Stands
Why
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.
John Lahr
Family
Made
Sullivan
Elvis
Only
Delight
Fell
Ed Sullivan
Waist
His
Off
Up
Debut
Show
Notorious
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
John Lahr
History
Money
Problems
Own
White
Living
Our
Later
Franchise
Kids
Recognizable
Rise
Postwar
Civilization
Had
Term
New
Greatest
Were
Mobility
Western
Western Civilization
Decade
Common
The History Of
Usage
Income
Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.
John Lahr
Time
Waiting
Wait
Father
Made
Vain
Laugh
Beckett
Pass
Continents
Arrival
Miami
Debut
American
Sensation
Samuel
Landscape
Who
Grove
Coconut
Florida
Playing
Two
Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.
John Lahr
Life
You
Age
Joy
Nation
Before
Sweet
Eloquent
Everything
Summers
Those
Airwaves
Out
Promise
Seemed
Taking
New
Come
Like
Rock
Were
Hearts
Did
Roll
Frontier
Laid
Banquet
Us
Full
Early
'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.
John Lahr
Speak
Made
Practice
Drama
Sides
Critics
Magazine
Both
Both Sides
Had
Part
New
Employ
Most
Because
Always
Authority
Yorker
Arts
Worked
Who
Comparable
Street
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