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Joseph Papp, Theater's Champion, Dies
1991
Overview
\"A Chorus Line\" was a prime example of a practice in which Mr. Papp engaged often and well, one in which he was a pioneer: moving a play to Broadway from Off Broadway. In 1972, he achieved perhaps his greatest success with transferred works, winning both major Tony Awards: best play, for \"Sticks and Bones,\" [David Rabe]'s harrowing tale of a Vietnam War veteran, and best musical, for a tuneful version of Shakespeare's \"Two Gentlemen of Verona,\" which starred [Raul Julia] and was first performed in Central Park. The next year, \"That Championship Season\" won the [Tony] for best play. At Lincoln Center attendance declined. In 1977, in his fourth and most successful season -- with productions of \"The Threepenny Opera,\" \"The Cherry Orchard\" and \"Agamemnon\" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and Mr. Rabe's \"Streamers\" at the Mitzi I. Newhouse Theater -- Mr. Papp suddenly announced that he was leaving Lincoln Center. He declared that he felt \"trapped in an institutional structure both artistically and fiscally.\" [Joseph Papp] in his office at the Public Theater last year. (Cori Wells Braun) (pg. A1); 1959: Joseph Papp watching a rehearsal of \"[Julius Caesar]\" alongside Belvedere Lake in Central Park. (The New York Times); 1956: Jack Cannon and [Colleen Dewhurst] in \"The Taming of the Shrew.\" (Avery Willard); 1976: Janet League, left, and [Ntozake Shange] in \"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.\"; 1990: Mr. Papp joined cast members on the stage of the Shubert Theater before the final performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical \"A Chorus Line,\" the longest-running show in Broadway history. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times); 1985: D. W. Moffett portrays an AIDS sufferer in [Larry Kramer]'s impassioned drama \"The Normal Heart\" at the Public Theater. (Martha Swope); 1967: The New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater in lower Manhattan is formally dedicated. (Jack Manning/The New York Times) (pg. D19)
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New York Times Company
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