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[[Advertisement]] How we see Spring AT MACY'S, IT'S GLAMOROUS, SEXY AND SLIM. IT SHINES, IT SPARKLES. IT LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT. Alberta Ferretti dress in The Little Shops. Call Linda Lee at Macy's By Appointment: 212-494-4181. Outside NY: 1-800-343-0121. MaCY★S [[Image of woman modeling a dress]] [[/Advertisement]] AT THIS THEATRE [[Image of The Booth Theatre]] STAN STARK THE BOOTH This warm, intimate playhouse, owned by the Shubert Organization, was built in 1913 by Lee Shubert and producer Winthrop Ames and was named for actor Edwin Booth. It shares Shubert Alley with the Shubert Theatre and has housed a distinguished collection of dramas, comedies, musicals and revues. It's most recent productions have included Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, starring Alec McCowen, Stephen Rea and James McDaniel; a revival of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella; the musical Once on This Island; the one-man show Tru, which starred Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award for his performance; Shirley Valentine, starring Pauline Collins, who won a Tony for her one-woman performancd; Michael Feinstein in Concert: Isn't It Romantic; A Walk in the Woods with Sam Waterston and Robert Prosky; Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport, a Tony Award winner for Best Play with Judd Hirsch (Tony Award), Cleavon Little, Mercedes Ruehl; Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, starring Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin; Al Pacino in David Mamet's American Buffalo; Richard Dreyfuss in Total Abandon; the British play Good; and Milo O'Shea and Michael O'Keefe in the comedy Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis, directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald. In 1979 the Shubert Organization engaged the famed interior designer Melanie Kahane to restore the Booth to its original elegance and Jacobean grandeur. That same year, a memorable play, The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, moved here from Off-Broadway. Philip Anglim starred, and it won three Tonys including Best Play. From 1976 to 1978 this theatre housed Ntozake Shange's stirring For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, and eloquent program of poetry. Tarzana Beverley won a Tony for her performance. Other highlights of the 1970's included a revival of Jerome Kern's Very Good Eddie; Murray Schisgal's All Over Town, directed by Dustin Hoffman and starring Cleavon Little; Terrence McNally's Bad Habits; and Joseph Papp's production of Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize play That Championship Season. The biggest hit of the 1960's was Leonard Gershe's Butterflies Are Free (1,133 performances), starring Eileen Heckart, Keir Dullea and Blythe Danner, who won a Tony for her B'way debut. Pinter's The Birthday Party, directed by Alan Schneider; Flanders and Swann in At the Drop of Another Hat; Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin in Murray Schisgal's outré comedy Luv, directed by Mike Nichols; and Julie Harris, Walter Matthau and William Shatner in A Shot in the Dark kept the Booth occupied for several years. The 1950's brought Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man; William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw with Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft; Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet; An Evening with Beatrice Lillie; and William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, with Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer winning Tonys. Early hits: The Lunts in The Guardsman (1924) and Pulitzer Prize Plays—You Can't Take It with You(1936) and The Time of Your Life (1939). Space limitations prevent us from mentioning all the productions which have played this theatre