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| 1978 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Original. November 12, 1978 · Joe Layton | 33 performances |
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She returned to Broadway in 1979 in a really lousy show, Platinum, albeit with six minutes of sheer brilliance, when Smith’s character, in a Follies-esque moment, looked back on her Hollywood career in the tour de force “Nothing But,” a song so head and shoulders above the rest of the score that wags wondered if John K… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p119
Rebounding from that show, the flop Platinum, he surprised everyone with his wonderful, confident direction of the circus concept of Barnum. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p305
Platinum lost $1.75 million, Grand Tour dropped $1.5 million, and A Broadway Musical proved a bargain at a cool million—all five opening within a grisly twelve weeks. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p36
Platinum flipped out, as it were, losing $1,743,000 (on an intended investment). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p753
“There are a lot of people who still think Platinum was one of the best things ever done on the stage” — producer Gladys Rackmil (Nederlander), while raising money for a subsequent show, in a 1980 interview with the Tzmes. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p754
She performed in an all-star Broadway revival of Clare Boothe Luce’s The Women (1973), William Inge’s Summer Brave (1975, a reworking of Picnic), and the musical Platinum (1978, Tony nomination). book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p748
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