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Harold Clurman wrote: " Though the show offers a number of attractive features, only a few of them are actually congruent with its theme ... There are ... a few charming numbers: one of them is called ' Enterprise ' derisive of our national fetish ... The Swados music is utilitarian rather than lyrically or dramatically expressive-it is employed, as in the Japanese or Chinese theatres, as sound to call attention to signal moments ... Even if I had liked more of the numbers than I did, I would still have thought ' too much show!
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Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.
Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.
Adapted by Harry Kurnitz and directed by Harold Clurman, it racked up an impressive 389 performances, opening at the Booth Theatre on 18 October 1961 and closing on 22 September 1962.
* 1901 – Harold Clurman, American director and producer ( d. 1980 )
In Kazan's autobiography, Kazan writes of the " lasting impact on him of the Group ," noting in particular, Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman as " father figures ", along with his close friendship with playwright Clifford Odets.
Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, both of whom were around thirty years old.
The film was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production since leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 ( the first was Rebecca ) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film.
Among the people becoming disenchanted with the Guild and turning to the Lab for a more radical, challenging environment were Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, Franchot Tone, Cheryl Crawford and Harold Clurman.
She tackled the role of her namesake, Joan of Arc, in a 1954 stage production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, but she left the play after a nervous breakdown and battles with director Harold Clurman.
McCullers herself adapted the novel for a Broadway production directed by Harold Clurman.
Time magazine described her personality as " fiery ", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was " volcanic ".
She took over the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire for the national tour, which was directed not by Elia Kazan who had directed the Broadway production but by Harold Clurman.
In Respect for Acting, Hagen credited director Harold Clurman with a turn-around in her perspective on acting :" In 1947, I worked in a play under the direction of Harold Clurman.
There she attracted the attention of director Harold Clurman and playwright Clifford Odets.
Crawford suggested that Harold Clurman, then a play reader for the Guild, invite Odets to a meeting to discuss new theatre concepts they were developing with Lee Strasberg.
He received bedside visits from such movie and theater friends as Marlon Brando, Lee Strasberg and Paula Strasberg, Jean Renoir and his wife, Dido, Elia Kazan, Harold Clurman, Shirley MacLaine, and Danny Kaye ,, among others.
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The Group Theatre was a New York City theater collective formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg in 1931.
Harold Clurman, who took over the production late in the rehearsal period, later admitted the Group's role in the fiasco.
Odets became the playwright most strongly identified with the Group, and its productions of Awake and Sing and Paradise Lost, both directed in 1935 by Harold Clurman, proved to be excellent vehicles for the Group's Stanislavskian aesthetic.
In the spring of 1941, Elia Kazan and Bobby Lewis accompanied Harold Clurman as he turned the key on the Group offices for the last time.
The most influential acting teachers, including Richard Boleslavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Michael Chekhov, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Robert Lewis, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, Ion Cojar and Ivana Chubbuck all traced their pedigrees to Stanislavski, his theories and / or his disciples.
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He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
In its review of the 1989 London revival, the reviewer for The Guardian wrote that the " production also strikes me as infinitely superior to Harold Prince's 1975 version at the Adelphi.
He wrote additional hit songs with composers Jerome Kern (" Long Ago ( and Far Away )"), Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen.
Harold Bloom, in 2010, argued that Coleridge wrote two kinds of poems and that " The daemonic group, necessarily more famous, is the triad of The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and ' Kubla Khan.
" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.
It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.
Soon after the publication of his book, Huxley wrote to Harold Raymond at Chatto and Windus that he thought it strange that when Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton wrote the praises of alcohol they were still considered good Christians, while anyone who suggested other routes to self-transcendence was accused of being a drug addict and perverter of mankind.
The chronicler Orderic Vitalis wrote of Harold that he " was very tall and handsome, remarkable for his physical strength, his courage and eloquence, his ready jests and acts of valour.
The pair also wrote a number of stand-alone novels similar in tone to the Harold Shea stories, of which the most highly regarded is Land of Unreason.
By 1942 Rockefeller had become increasingly impatient that his purchased property might never be added to the park, and wrote to the Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that he was considering selling the land to another party.
In 1947, anthropologist Harold Sterling Gladwin wrote " supermodel " in his book Men Out of Asia.
In 2009, Aykroyd along with Harold Ramis, wrote and appeared in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which also featured Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Brian Doyle-Murray.
Lieutenant Colonel William Harold Dunn ( 1898-1955 ) wrote a medical and psychiatric report on him in prison to evaluate him as a suicide risk: He gave the impression of clinging to his own theories in a fanatical and unyielding fashion and to have been little influenced by the unfolding during the trial of the cruelty and crimes of the party.
Danziger, who said she knew in the second grade that she wanted to be a writer, wrote more than 30 books, including her 1974 debut The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Remember Me to Harold Square, The Divorce Express and Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?
Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.
In a review in the Sunday Times on 11 November, Harold Hobson wrote the stage was full of " practically the whole company waving gory stumps and eating cannibal pies.
" Harold Bloom called the book " Joyce's masterpiece ", and wrote that " aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon Wake would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante.
" In 1994, in The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote of Finnegans Wake: " aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante ," and in 1998 the Modern Library placed Finnegans Wake seventy-seventh amongst its list of " Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century.
In 1938, composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. Harburg ( composers of " Over the Rainbow " and many other hits ) wrote the song " God's Country ", for the finale of the MGM musical Babes in Arms, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
She wrote the foreword and introduction of Nancy Mitford: A Memoir by Harold Acton.
In his 2CD Retrospective Reasons To be Cheerful produced by Repertoire Records Dury stated that he never wrote another verse as good as Harold Hill's verse.
Lyrics, were written by Harold Adamson ( nominated 5 times for an Oscar )-nephew Bruce Adamson noted, that " Harold wrote several hundred songs for the film industry such hits as Wyatt Earp ; Time on My Hands ; Coming in on A Wing and a Prayer ; Around the World in 80 Days, An Affair to Remember, Sinatra's first Oscar nomination " I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night ," Jean Harlow's last song, Did I Remember ; naming a few " and the lyrics to ' I Love Lucy ' was sung by Desi Arnaz, written for the episode by Harold Adamson " Lucy's Last Birthday ":
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