{"id":2417,"date":"2011-06-07T11:45:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2011-06-07T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T17:03:10","slug":"plays-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"Plays in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

In anticipation of the \u201cPlaywrights in Mind: A National Conversation\u201d<\/a> conference being held at Mason June 9-12, I thought it appropriate to introduce two playbills I find fascinating in Special Collections.<\/p>\n

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Buck White<\/em> and La Strada<\/em> were two short-lived plays with big stars that opened and closed in December of 1969. La Strada<\/em> opened and closed on December 14, 1969 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway after 14 previews. It was a financial disaster and lost $650,000. It starred a young Bernadette Peters. Buck White starring Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali, faired only slightly better: It opened December 2nd<\/sup> and closed December 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Both playbills come from the Charles Rodrigues Playbill Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In anticipation of the \u201cPlaywrights in Mind: A National Conversation\u201d conference being held at Mason June 9-12, I thought it appropriate to introduce two playbills I find fascinating in Special Collections. Buck White and La Strada were two short-lived plays with big stars that opened and closed in December of 1969. La Strada opened and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scrc-picks","tag-playbills"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-CZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10112,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=10112","url_meta":{"origin":2417,"position":0},"title":"Exploring the Martin Cohen Theater Collection","author":"Kelsey Kim","date":"March 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently, I took a turn away from my standard digital work to do something I haven\u2019t done since I was a teeny weeny undergraduate student about\u2026.ten years ago (hey, 30s are the new 20s)\u2014PROCESSING! 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