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AT THIS THEATRE

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STAN STARK

ETHEL BARRYMORE
The Ethel Barrymore Theatre opened December 20, 1928 with Ethel Barrymore in The Kingdom of God. Miss B. again acted here in The Love Duel, Scarlet Sister Mary and The School for Scandal.
The Barrymore's first musical was Cole Porter's The Gay Divorce in 1932, followed by Noël Coward's Design for Living, with the author, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
The magic spell lasted through the 30's with Claire Booth's The Women; Knickerbocker Holiday; Katherine Cornell and Laurence Olivier in No Time for Comedy; Key Largo with Paul Muni, José Ferrer and Uta Hagen. The 40's kept pace with Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, starring Gene Kelly; Judith Anderson, Katharine Cornell and Ruth Gordon in Chekhov's The Three Sisters; and Gertrude Lawrence in Pygmalion. A Streetcar Name Desire, with Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, broke the house record.
During the 50's the Barrymore housed Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Consul; Bell, Book and Candle with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer; The Fourposter, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy; Deborah Kerr and John Kerr in Tea and Sympathy; The Chalk Garden; and A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier. Claudia McNeil and Ruby Dee.
The Barrymore hosted Critic's Choice starring Henry Fonda in 1960, and in '61 The Complaisant Lover, by Graham Greene, starred Micheal Redgrave and Sandy Dennis. Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland enlivened 1962 in Garson Kanin's A gift of Time. In the Fall, Orson Welles' productions of Moby Dick starred Rod Steiger as Captain Ahab. In 1964, Peter Falk played Joseph Stalin in Paddy Chayefsky's The Passion of Josef D. James Baldwin's The Amen Corner held the stage in 1965, followed by Wait Until Dark.
In February 1967 the curtain opened on Geraldine Page, Lynn Redgrave and Micheal Crawford in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. A successful revival of The Front Page made news until 1970, starring Robert Ryan and Bert Convy.
The first hit of the 70's was Conduct Unbecoming. Alec McCowen next starred in a British comedy, The Philanthropist. Melvin Van Peebles contributed two musicals in the early 70's--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death and Don't Play Us Cheap. Ingrid Bergman visited the thea-

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atre in 1972 in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, and 1973 saw Rex Harrison play the title role in Pirandello's Repertory Company occupied the house during the 73-74 season, and was followed by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, who graced Noel Coward in Two Keys.
From 1975 to the present, the Barrymore has housed the Tony Award-winning play Travesties; American Buffalo with Robert Duvall; I Love My Wife; Romantic Comedy; Lunch Hour; Is There Life After High School?; Foxfire with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy; the hit musical Baby and David Rabe's Hurlyburly.
Space limitations prevent us from mentioning all the productions which have played this theatre