Variety (May 1961)

“The real firebali in the best Elizabeth Seal Gwen Verdon tradition is Betty Madigan. A room-rocking performance.’’ NEW UNITED ARTISTS RECORD VAUDEVILLE Vark “Telegram New York World Telegt MONDAY, MAY Betty Madigan Off On Comedy Cruise By TED MORELLO “Reno,” runs one of the “Anything Goes” lines in the Cole Porter musical at the Cotillion Room, “youre the greatest. And sure enough, as portrayed by the irrepressible Betty Madigan, Reno is. Indeed, {fn spite of the political performances of her shipmazes, Miss Madigan comes close. i ady into to turning the nautical comcds a one-woman eruise. aE This is a return engagement to the Hotel Pierre for “Anything Goes.” Entertainment director Stanley Melba originally fist nighted the Melba-Dolores Balle adaptation in the Cotillion Room shere’s on Jan. 3. The present production | ere’ owe casts Miss Madigan in the role Gabriel, Bios : . originally played by Jan MeArt, i works up and Marie Santell repiaces Mary , finale. . aan : the| But alone or in combination, the ain in t ( three male roles remain st Elizabeth capable hands: Jimmy Carreal fireball in the_best Eliza z roll. Larry Douglas and Wilbur ! Seal-Gwen Verdon_ tradition SS Evans Betty Madigan. She turns on ; ° paatnte . .. Details of the tangled romanc-! gapperish strut, bats her eves, an ; ing aboard ship with the Cotillion .«with Mr. Douglas: hits Me that SS Pierre’ d ‘of “You're the Top” in a \ ! the SS Pierre’s granc ’ of Oo 3 Room » are ingenious and rela-' proves she truly is. But it's oe tively ‘unimportant. The musie’ title tune— Anything Gort her r ting: and: prings out the elastic D¢ | ith Lee Hulbert conducting and : bri r vvore particularly the singing are . ygice, which runs. the gamut from the thi |iow register to baby-talk falsett the tain adigan ‘with startling gravel-crushing pasThere are the Carroll-Madaiga tages and breaks if precisely the . oe u tt . . . . sentimental ballad. te ne ra right places. It's .a room-rocking an 3) . the Night,” , Carroll-Santell duet in the same ‘ performance. 5 SNe mS BETTY MADIGAN Mr, Evans with “Blow, a number ‘that allelujah-snoutia’ lounge, ® is ; | here’s XIr. Douglas, h through voual strong resonant voice very | The show, wien es ein. British or-—as Reno sighs admir-; May 28, will be lo , ( on. ingly—“with a monacte in it.” And: Room’s last for the seas JUST RELEASED “21 YEARS” with DON COSTA Orchestra WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY Bargain-Rate Adiish for Everything Keys New Freedomland B.0. Pitch ——¢ Freedomland has revamped. its plans for its second season which e 6 C Boston Civic Aud Hinges | will start June. 10, with a new. ni price policy calling for a one-price On Insurance Co. Plans ticket—$2.93 both for.adults and _ Boston, May 9. | children—-good for all shows, .ex-Hub’s new Civic Auditorium, a! hibits ‘and 30 rides, plus the in$12,000,000 project, which, it is}-stallation of picnic grounds. Aimhoped can also house opera and | ing fora goal. of 3,000,000 admisballet companies, hinges directly | ions, during the season, the 205 on the Prugential Center’ future, | £75, BME whieh opened as Yeas Mayor John F. Collins pointed | to expand its facilities to 164. atout at a meéeting of city council | tractions, a 7 members and the Boston Auditor-| A shareholders’ meeting is slated ; ium Commission. to be. called shortly to. discuss the | “Without the $200,000.000 cen| financing .for the. expanded. park. ter.’ the mayor said, “the pro-|Webb & Knapp, which. originally posed hall would be the wrong{OWned the land on which the en| building in the wrong place at the |terprise was built, has now taken wrong time.’ He said no con-|over complete operalion of the (tracts for the combo auditorium | Venture. The executive nut has | opera house and exhibition hall | been pruned. and key execs of the will be awarded “unless and, un-|Trealty. development firm. will look j| ti Prudential advertises to go ;in on the operation of the pirk. ; ahead.” Freedomland opened last year | The mayor said the site, with-| ith one of the largest. crowds ever {out the Prudential development, | to attend a similar event.. The park would be too far from hotels to; had to close its boxoffice. at one service conventions and that pro-|time in order to maintain ‘order. | posed construction over railroad |However, it. had not been. fully | tracks adds an extra $1,000.000 to completed, and with a huge. operi building costs. All agreed that the | ating nut coming from a@ heavy ros| auditorium will fit perfectly into [ter of employees and extremely. the Prudential Center.as planned, | ith building costs, which made ! however. os ~" iitself evident with Jarge slices of i overtime pay, the park was in fii nancial straits midway in the eral criticism that the absence of ipicnic grounds ended te increase , e @ Detro Decision ‘costs for the average family, is. ex’ pected to aid the park this year. George Bennett 1s supervising. reedomland publicity this: year. £ oe .jseason, . . | AGVA A | al Paring of the “fat” part of the . operation, together with the gen' | The American Guild of Variety : F 1| Artists has filled a writ of certiorari ; —__eemmememrmcenmeeemmesnnsionememneieay with the U.S. Supreme Court seek: ! ing permission to appeal a decision ' handed down last January by the: U.S, Court of Appeals which grant, ed a temporary injunction to Gene . Detroy, manager and trainer of the . Marquis Chimps, restraining the union from keeping him on its “un; fair” list. . oflisies_ FUN-MASTER PROFESSIONAL COMEDY MATERIAL for all Theafricals . “We Service the Stars” Buy Professional — Be Professional ff 35 Gag Files for $15, ‘Plus $1.00 Postage |. 'Borelgn: 35 for $25 @ 3 Parody Books, Per Bk. .. $I e . @ 4 Blackout Books, Per Bk. $25 @ The appeals tribunal held that: @ Minstrel Budget... .... $250 Detroy had not been “afforded ajf “ow to Master. the Ceremonies of full and fair hearing” within the ;} No C.0.D’s ..... .. “Always Open” [° a BILLY GLASON : 200 W. 34th St., N.Y.C., 1% CO 5-1318 (WE TEACH EMCEEING and COMEDY. _tLet a Real Professional Train You HERBIE SELLS} Curtently 500 CLUB . Atlantic City : Open May. 24th THE RED BARN Springfield, Mass. PHIL WEB ATTRACTIONS 420 Madison Avenue, New York provisions of the Labor-Manage: ment Reporting and Disclosure Act . of 1959. Case stems from a contract ; at the Dunes Hotel, Las Vegas. The ‘}performer asked to be relieved of the last week of his engagement in order ‘to fulfill another date.. Detroy contended that the Dunes j: ||}Management granted him permfs-: sion. to leave, and he ‘even worked with his replacement act.. 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