Your Intermission Interview: 1956

I love collecting theatre memorabilia, whether it be Playbills from older shows, cast albums on LP and other formats and souvenir programs. Leafing through "The PLAYBILL for the Sam S. Shubert Theatre" for the original Broadway production of Pipe Dream, I came across this page entitled "Your Intermission Interview" which presents a checklist of the shows on the boards. This idea has been modified into the "How Many Have You Seen?" pages in the contemporary theatre Playbill which isn't as participatory. I thought I'd share it:

YOUR INTERMISSION INTERVIEW

How many of these hits have you seen?

If your score is 14 or more you are a star; 13, you are featured; 12, you're a bit player; less than 12, you need more rehearsals at the box office.

MUSICAL

□ FANNY - Majestic - Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak
□ THE PAJAMA GAME - St. James - John Raitt, Eddie Foy Jr., Helen Gallagher
□ PIPE DREAM - Shubert - Helen Traubel, William Johnson
□ SILK STOCKINGS - Imperial - Hildegard Neff

COMEDY

□ BUS STOP - Winter Garden - By William Inge
□ THE CHALK GARDEN - Barrymore - Gladys Cooper, Siobhan McKenna
□ THE DESK SET - Broadhurst - Shirley Booth
□ THE MATCHMAKER - Royale - Ruth Gordon, Eileen Herlie, Loring Smith
□ THE PONDER HEART - Music Box - David Wayne
□ JANUS - Plymouth - Margaret Sullavan, Claude Dauphin, Robert Preston

DRAMA

□ A HATFUL OF RAIN - Lyceum - Shelley Winters, Ben Gazzara
□ INHERIT THE WIND - National - Paul Muni, Ed Begley, Tony Randall
□ THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK - Cort - Joseph Schildkraut, Susan Strasberg, Gusti Huber
□ THE LARK - Longacre - Julie Harris, also starring Boris Karloff
□ TIME LIMIT - Booth - Arthur Kennedy, Richard Kiley