Variety (June 1958)

■56. ^ ITCITIIIATB.. Wednesday, June 1^ 1958 1938- 39 Actor: Maurice Evans (“Hianilet’'). Actress: Judith Anderson (“Fam¬ ily Portrait”! and Ethel Waters (“Mamba’s Daughters’’), tied. 1939- 40 Actor: Alfred Lunt (“There Shall Be No Night”) and Barry Fitzgerald (“Juno and the Paycock”), tied.; Actress: Sara AllgOdd (“Pay- cock”). 1940- 41 Actor: Paul Lukas (“Watch bn the Rhine”). Actress: Gertrude ’ Lawrence (“Lady in the Dark”). 1941- 2 Actor: Burgess Meredith (“Can¬ dida”). Actress: Judith Anderson (“Mac¬ beth”). . Male in Musical: Danny Kaye (“Let’s Face It”). Femme in Musical: Eye Arden (“Let’s Face It”), Supporting Acton Joseph Bu- loff (Spring Again”). Supporting Actress: Jessica Tan¬ dy (Yesterdas^s Magic”). Promising Actor: Nicholas Conte (“Jason”). Promising Actress: Mary Ander¬ son (Guest in the House”), Judith Evelsm (“Angel Street”) and Bev¬ erly Roberts (“Uncle Harry”), tied; Director: Shepard Traube (“An¬ gel Street”), Designer: Howard Bay (“Brook-, lyn, U.S.A.”). 1942- 3 Acton Alfred Lunt (“Pirate”).. Actress: TaUuiah B a nkh ea d (“Skin of Oiir Teeth”). Male in Musical: Alfred Drake (“Oklahoma”). Femme in Musical: Ethel Mer¬ man (“Something for the Boys”). Supporting Actor: Rhys Williams (“Harriet”). Supporting Actress: Aline Mac- Mahon (“Eve of SL Mark”). Promising Acton Skippy . Ho- meier (“Tomorrow the World”). Promising Actress: Joan Caul¬ field (“Kiss and Tell”), Director: Elia Kazan (“Skin of Our Teeth”). Designer: Lgmuel Ayers (“Pi¬ rate”). Score: Richard Rodgers (“Okla¬ homa”). 1943- 44 Actor: Elliott Nugent (“Voice of the Turtle”). Actress: Margaret Sullavan (“Voice of the Turtle”). Male in Musical: Bobby Clark (“Mexican Hayride”). - Femme in Mu^cal: Mary Mar¬ tin (“One Touch of Venus”). Supporting Acton tie between Jose Ferrer (“Othello”), Montgom¬ ery^ Clift (“Searching Wind”)' and Arnold Korff (“Searching Wind’’). Supporting A c t re s s: Ter>y Holmes (“Manhattan Nocturne”). Promising Actor: Montgomery Clift (“Searching Wind”). Promisiiig Actress: Terry Holmes (“Manhattan Nocturne”). Directon Moss Hart (“Winged Victory”). Designer: Stewart Chaney (“Voice of the Turtle”). . . : Composer: Kurt; Weill (“One Touch of Venus”). 1944- 45 Actor: Frank Fay (“Harvey”). Actre^: Laurette Taylor (“Glass Menagerie”). Male in Musical; John Raitt (“Carousel”); Femme . in Musical; Beatrice Lillfe (“Seven Lively Arts”). Supposing Actor: Fred O’Neal (“Anna Lucasta”). Supporting Actress: Jo^phine Hull (“Harvey”). Promising Actor: tie between Richard Basehart (“Hasty Heart”) and John Lund (“Hasty Heart’’). Promising Actress: Joan Tetzel (“I "Remember Mama”). . Director: John van Druten (“I Remember Mama”). Choreographer; Agnes de Mille (“Carousel”). Designer: George Jenkins. (“Dark of the Moon”). Composer - Lyricist: Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein 2d (“Carousel"). 1945- 46 Actor: Laurence Olivier (Old Vic), . Actress: Betty Field (“Dream Girl”) Male in Musical: Ray. Bolger (“Three to Make Ready’ll. Femme in Musical: Ethel Mer¬ man (“Annie Get Your Gun"). Supporting Actor: Marlon Bran¬ do (‘‘TiiiciBline Cafe”). Supporting Actress: Barbara Bel Geddes (“Deep Are the Roots”). Director; tie between Michael Gordon (“Home of the Brave”), Alfred Lunt. (“Mistress Mipe”) and Bretaigne Wiiidust (“State of the Union”). Choreographer; “Helen Tanilris (“Annie Get Your Gun”). Desi^er: tie between Jo. Miel-; ziner (“Dream Girl”) and Rpbert Edmond - Jones (“Lute Song”). Composer: Irving Berlin .(“ Annie Get Your Gun”). Lyricist: Harold Rome (“Gall Me Mister”)... , librettist: Herbert and Dbroihy [ Fields (“Annie Get Your Gun”). !- 1946-47 Actor: tie between Dudley Digges (“Iceman Cometh”) -afid Fredric March (“Years Ago’^). . Actress: Ingrid Bergman (“Joan of Lorraine”). ' Male in Musical: Bobby Clark (“Would-Be Gentleman”). Femme in Musical: Marion Bell (“Brigadbon"), Supporting Actor: Tie between Tom Ewell (“John Loves' Mary’-) and David Wayne (“Finian’s Rain- bow’-). ■ Supporting Actress: Margaret Phillips (“Another Part of the Forest”). . Promising Actor: Arthur J, Ken¬ nedy (“All My Sons”). . ' Promising Actress: Patricia Neal (“Another Part of the Forest”). Directon tie between John Giel¬ gud (“Importance of Beipg Ear¬ nest”)..'and Elia Ka^ (“All My Sons”). : Choreography: tie between Agnes de Mille (“Brigadpon”), and Mi¬ chael Kidd (“Finiari’s Raihbpw”). Designer: Jp Mielziner (“An¬ other Part of the For^”). Compeer: Frederick Loewe (“Brigadpon”). Lyricist: E. Y. Harhurg ("Finian’s Rainbow”). ' Librettist: Alan Jay .Lerner (“Brigadoon”). •[ . Promising Playwright: Arthur Miller X“A11 My Sons”). ; 1847-48 r Acton Paul Kelly. (“Command Decisipn’’). . Act r e s s: Judith Anderson (“Medea’O. Male in Musical:. tie between Paul Hartman (“Angel in the Wings”) and Jack McCauley (“High Button Shoes”). ; Femme in Musical: Beatrice LilUe (“Inside U. S. A.”). j Supporting Actor: KarF Malden (“Streetcai Named Desire”), . Supporting Actress: Kim Hunter (“Streetcar Named Desire’’). Promising Acton Marlon Brando (“Streetcar Named Desire”). Promising Actress: Meg Mundy (“Respectable Prostitute”). Director; Joshua Logah (“Mister Roberts”). Choreographer: Jerome Robbins: (“High Button Shoes”). Desi^er: Jo Mielziner (“Street¬ er Named Desire”). Composen Jerome Mbrdss (“Bal-. let Ballads”). Lyricist: John Latouche (“Baliet Ballads”); Librettist: John Latouch (“Bal¬ let Ballads”), . Promising Plywright; William H. Haines (“Command Decision”). .194^9;:- Actor; Lee Cobh (“Death of a Salesman”). ; Actress: Martita: Hunt (“Mad¬ woman of Ghaillot”)^ Male; in Musical; Ezio Pinza (“South Pacific”}.. Femnie in Musical: Mary Martin (“South pacific”).. Supporting. Actor: tie between Joseph Wiseman (“Detective Story”; Robert Emhardt (“Life with Mother”) and Arthur J. Keh- riedy (“Death of a Salesman”). Supporting Actress; Mildred Dunnpek (“Death of a Salesman”), ~ - Promising Actbr: Ray Walston (“Summer and Smoke”). . Promising Actress.: tie between Julie Hairls (“Sundown Beach”), Doe Ayedon (“Young and Fair”) and Carol Ghanning (“Lend an Ear”). Director: Elia Kazafi (“Death of a Salesman”), Choreographer: Hanya Holm (“Kiss Me. Kate”). Designer: Jo Mielziner (“Death bf a Salesman”), , Composer: Richard Rb d.g e t s (“South Pacific”): ? Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein 2 d (“South Pacific”), . ‘JJbirettist: Oscar Hainmersteio 2 d and Joshua Logan (“South Pacific”). Promising Playright; Robert E. [McEnroe (“Silver Whirtle”). 1949 - 50 . Actor: Alec Guinness (“Cocktail Party”). . Actress: Shirley Bodth (“Come Back, Little Sheba’’). Male in Musical: tie between George Guetary (“Arms and the Girl”) and Todd Duncan (“Lost in the Stars“), . Femme In Musical: Patricia Neway, (“Cohsur-). Supporting Actor: tie. between Robert Fieinyng (“Cocktail Party”) and Kent Smith (“Wisteria Trees”). Supporting Actress: Julie Harris (“Member of the Wedding”), : Promising Actor: tie: between David Cole : (“Innocents’-) and Douglas Watson (“Wisteria Trees”). Promising Actress: Matcia Hen-i derson ("Peter: Pan’’). j Director; Peter. Glehville (“Inno¬ cents”).-- Designer: Jo Mielziner (“Inno¬ cent's-’).- Composer: Gian- Carlo Menotti (“ConsuU’). Promising playwright:. Williaim Inge (“Come Back, Little Sheba”). 1950 - 51 Actor; Claude Rains .(“Darkness at Noon”). . Actress:: tie between Uta Hagen (Continued on page 58) SeapB*’* Btots iisss .Contlnneg from page 1 art, as the heroine's unhappily married sister in “Dark at the Top of the Stairs,” was named as best supportihg actress. The critics had no clear yoice for the most promising new legit actor, hilt Miss Bancroft walked off with the honors as most prom¬ ising actress (besides, being a con¬ tender in the best-actress cate¬ gory ). George Roy HUl was picked [ as -best director- fbr “Look Home¬ ward, Angel,” With Peter Brook runner-up for “The Visit.” There were ho definite choices as best designer or best ebsturrier, but Meredith Willson was picked as best composer and best lyr/.*irt, for. “Music Mam;” 'And although the season was exceptional for the number of authors who offered suc¬ cessful' or at least notable first plays (or,, in the case of “Music Man,” a first bobtscore^ljTics), the critics haid no clear choice for the most promising hew: playwright. This was especially highlighted by the fact ail but one of the best- perfoiinahce winners were appearr ihg in an author’s initial work. As with previous polls, there was considerable confusion among the critics over: categories, particu¬ larly in the classification of lead¬ ing and. supporting parts. There w'as also appareritly some confu¬ sion as to who were the “new” le^t players;. Jndividiial ^ots Individual ballots of the varions critioi in the annual Variety poll of the New York first-siringers were as follows (figures tefer to the various categories) : Aston (World-Telegraihir 1 . Bel¬ lamy; 2, Hayes; 3,: Randall; 4 , Lawrence; 5, Jones; 6 , Heckart; 7 , Perkins; 8 , Bancroft; 9, Hill;. 10, Mielziner (“On, Captain’’); Tl, Mbtiey. (“Country Wife”); 12 , Bern¬ stein; ISj.WiBsoh; 14, Schary. Atkinson (Times): 1 , Lunt; 2 , Fohtanne; 3, Pfbston; 4, Horne; 5, Jones; 6 , Heckart; 7, none; 8 , Ban¬ croft; 9, Brook; 10, Aronson; 11 , White; 12; Bernstein; 13, Sondheim; 14,; none. . . ^ ^ Barron (AP): 1; Bellamy; 2; Van Fleet; 3, . Preston; 4, Horne; 5 , Jones; 6 , Heckart; 7, none; 8 , nohe; 9, Hill; 10, Bay; li, hone; 12, none; .13, nbn.e; 14, none. .- Chapman (News): 1, Bellamy; 2, Bancroft; .3, Preston; 4, Lawrence; 5, none; 6 , none; 7* none; 8 , none; 9, none; 10^ none; 11, none; 12, nche; 13, none; 14, none. Colby (Journal of Commerce): 1 , Bellamy; 2, Van Fleet; 3, Preston; 4 , McKeever; 5, Kert; 6 , Heckart; 7, Everett; 8 , Healy; . 9, .Robbins; I 10 , Larkin (“Compulsion"); 11, du Eois; 12 ,; Bernstein; 13, Willson; 14. Panetta. ' Coleman (MuTor): 1, Bellamy; 2, Van Fleet; 3. Preston; 4, Horne; 5, Griffith; 6 , Heckart; 7, Desmbnd; 8 , Bancroft; 9, Kazan; 10, Edwards (“Jane Eyre”); 11 , Mbtiey (“Jane EjTe”); 12,. Willson; 13, Willson; 14, Gibson.. Cooke (Wall Street Jo.urnal): 1 , Perkins; 2, Bancn>ft;,3, Pteston; 4, Lawrence; 5 Walrton; 6 , Strasbefg; 7, hone; 8 , none; 9, Robbins; 10 , Previous Seasons Winiiers Best-of-the-Seasim selections by the New York Drahio mticS . in former years have included the follovnng: ♦ : ' --—-— ’ ■ ' ■■ - - f Tabulation of selections by the New York dtamti critics fdr tkt various *‘bestS'' of the 1957-58 Broadway season. I. Best Performance by the Male Lead in a Straight Play Ralph Bellamy (“Sunrise at Campobellp”) .,,;.. *......;.;.; 0 Laurence-Olivier (“The Entertainer”) 3 Alfred Lunt (“The Visit”) 2 Richard Burton (“Time Remembered”) 1 Anthony Perkins (“Look Homeward, Angel”) . --: ..... 1 2. Best Performance hy. the Femme Lead In . a Straight Play Jo: Van Fleet (“Look Homeward, Angel”) ..................... 4 Anne Bancroft (“Two for the Seesaw”) ........... i.......... 3 Lynn Fontanne.(“The Visit”) .;. . . . ..*..... •....... 3 Brenda de Banzie (“The Entertamer”) ... . .......... *. *...... I Helen Hayes (“Time Remembered”) .... . .................... 1 Siobhan McKenna (“Rope Dancers”) .. .. . ..... . 1 - 3. Best Performance by the Male Lead in a Musical Robert Preston (“Music Man”) _>. - ... .... .10 Tony Randall (*‘Oh Captain”) .....> ......... > ... >.... 4 2 Jack Warden (“Body Beauttful’’) ... . . i.... 1 4. Best Performwee by the Femme/Lead in a Musical Lena Horne (“Jamaica”) .. . . . .....; ......---; . 6 Carol Lawrence (“West Side Stbry”) 3 Nancy Walker (“Copper and Brass”) ... i...............:...... 2 Barbara Cook (“Music Man”) . . ... ....................... 1 Jacqueline McKeever (“Oh Captain”) .. - .. . >.. 1 5. Best Performance .by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Straight Play or Musical) Henry Jones (“Sunrise at Gampbbello”) ..............----5. Hugh Griffith (“Look Homeward, Angel”)........... 3 Sig Arno (“Time Remembered”) ..... .1 Larry kert (“West Side Story”) .. .. .......,>........ .1 George Scott (“As You Like It”—Off-Broadway) .............. 1 Ray Walston (“Who Was That Lady?”) .............__ 1 None ' ....... .■.. ...... 1, 6 . Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Straight Play or Musical) Eileen Heckart (“Darkest the Top of the Stairs”) __....... 8 None . .;... w> ..... 4 ..;:.......---... 2 Anne Bancroft (“Two. for the Seesaw”) . i^1 Brenda de Banzie (“The Entertainer”) .......... . 4 .;.... 1 Susan Strasberg (“Time Remembered”) . ........... . . .... 4 1 7. Most Prominent New Legit Actor None .................,,.:..,.V.....•i 6 Bert Brinckerhoff (“Blue JJenim”) ..................... ...... . 2 Johnny Desmond (“Say, Darling”) ... . ......... 4 ... 4 4 . 1 Timmy Everett (“Dark at the Top of the Stairs”) 1 Anthony Perkins “Look Homeward, Angel”) , .......1 George Scott (“Richard III”—Off-Broadway)........ 1 Maximilian Schell- (“Interlock”) ... ...... _....... 4 . 1 8 . Most Promising New Legit Actress Anne Bancroft (“Two for the Seesaw”) .. .........,...... 6 None . ’ . . ... 4 . 4 ,.:. 4 Mary Healy ("Who Was That Lady?”) _____ . 4 ... 1 Jacqueline McKeever ("Oh Captain”) ........................ .1 Kathleen Widdoes ("Firstborn”) . . . _................ 1 9. Best Director George Roy Hill (“Look Hbmeward, Angel”) .............. 4 Peter Brook ("The Visit”) .. 3 Elia Kazan ("Dark at the Top of the Stairs”) . .4 ...4 2 Jerome Robbins ("West Side Stbry”) ,: . ....... . ... . ^ None^................... 4 ... 4 .... :'2 '■ 10. Best Scenic Designer None ....: V.. .. 4 ... 4 .,............ . 4.....3 Peter Larkin (“Compulsion”) .................... ..r-........ 2 Jo Mielziner ("Oh Captain’’) , ... . . ....................... 2 Boris Aronson (-Tirstborn”) ...._ .. .... . 4 ........... 1 Howard Bay ("Music Man”) -, . /... ......... 4 ..,. 4 .... 1 Ben Edwards ("Dark at the Top of the Stairs”) ... ... .. .. . . .... I Ben Edwards (“Jane Eyre”) -... . 4 . 1 Peter LarUn ("Blue Denim”) ... . .................. 4 ,;.. . 1 Joe Mielziner ("Look Homeward, Angel”) 1 11. Best Costume Designer None ............. 4: __ :......... 4 4 .... .... ........ 4 Miles White (“Time Remembered”) ........ 4 ....>... . 4 ;. 3 Raoul Pene dn Bois (“Music Man”) __2 Cecil Beaton (“The Visit”)..;._____________.........., 1 Motley ("Country Wife”) ;;............ .i/; ......... 1 Motley ("Jane Eyre”) . ... ....4..;. 1 Motley ("Look Homeward; Angel”) .\ ......... 1 12. Best Composer Meredith Willson ("Music Man”) .. ... 5 Leonard Bernstein (“West Side Story”) ...................... 4 None . : ....... : .,....;.............4 4... 4... 2 Jerry Bock (“Boay Bequtifiil”) .. ..:.... 4 . .................. .1 Harold Arlen (“Jamaica”) .... ...... 4 .................. 1 13. Best Lyricist Meredith Willson (“Music Man”) ... ..................... 7 None '.. ....... V. .......:..... i;,..3 Steve Sondheim (“West Side Story”) ....... . ._____ 2 Sheldon Harnick (“Body BeautifuL’’) ...... ......,;...... 1 14, Most promising Playrrtight None ..,— v.. ., . .. ■_ 5 . William Gibson (“Two. for the Seesaw”)_ .............. 2Vi Friedrich Dueirenmatt (“The Visit’’) ..!. .,..... 2 John Osborne (“Look Back in Anger^” "The Entertainer”)...... l^Vi George Panetta (“Comic Strip”—Gff-Broadway) ....., ^....... 1 . Dbre Schary (“Sunrise at Ciinpbbidlo”) ^. . 1 . New York critics included in the balloting were Frahk itoton (World- Telegram A Sun, Breoks Atkinson (Times), Mark Barton (Associated Press), John Chapman (News), Ethel Colby (Journal of Commerce), Robert Coleman (Mirror),. Richard Cooke (Wall Street Journal), Thom¬ as R. Dash (Women’s Wear Daily), Jack Gaver (United Press), Heniy Hewes (Saturday Review), Walter Kerr (Herald Tribune), Louis Kronen- berger (Time inag) and Emory Lewis (Cue). Mielziner (“Oh, Captain”); 11, Beaton; 12, Willson; 13, Willson; 14, none. Dash (Women’s Wear Daily): 1, Lunt; 2, Fontanne; 3 , Ph-eston; 4, Walker (“Wonderful Town”); 5, Jones; 6 , Bancroft; 7, Brinckerhoff; 8 , McKeever; 9, Brook; 10, Larkin (“Blue . Denim”); 11 , White; 12, Willson; 13, Willson; 14, Gibson. Gaver (UP): 1, Olivier; 2, Ban¬ croft; 3, Preston; 4, Cook; 5, Jones; 6 , Heckart; 7, none;. 8 , none; 9, HUl; IO 4 none; 11, none; 12 , WUl- son; 13, Willson; 14, Duerrenmatt. Hewes (Saturday Review): 1, Olir vier; 2, McKenna; 3, Warden; 4, Horne; 5, Scott; 6 , Heckart; 7, Scott; 8 , Widdoes; 9, Kazan; .10, Mielziner (“Look Homeward, An¬ gel”); 12 , Bock; 13. harnick; 14,,, Duertenmatt. Kerr (Herald Tribune): 1, Bur¬ ton; 2, Fpntanne; 3, ]^eston; 4, Horne; .5, Griffith; 6 , de Banzie; 7, Schell; 8 , Bancroft; 9, Brook; 10, Edwards (“Dark at the Top of the Stairs”); 11, dii Bois; 12, WUlsoh; 13, Willson; 14, Osbome-Gibson (split vote). Kronenberger (Time mag): 1, Olivier; 2, de Banzie; 3, Preston; 4, Home; 5, Arno; 6 , none; 7 , none^ R, Bancroft; 9, none; 10 , none; 11 , nbne; 12, Arlen; 13, none; 14, none. Lewis (Cue'; 1 , Bellamy; 2 , Van Fleet; 3, Randall; 4, Walker (“Cbp-^ per and Brass") 5, Griffith; 6 , Hebk^t; 7, Brinckerhoff; 8 , Ban¬ croft; 9, Hill; 10, Durkin (“Compul'^ sibn”); 11, White;. 12 y Bernstein; 13,- Sondheim; 14, Osborne. - . >