Hints and tips:
...First came Picnic, a 1955 adaptation of the William Inge play about a small town atwitter over a ruggedly handsome visitor, which starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell....
...A rum array of thespians recites the poems, from venerable nonagenarian German actor Inge Keller to, er, William Shatner, while the songs extend from classical music to rock, with Wainwright mostly ceding...
...In the US, Stephen Sondheim had Hal Prince, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller shared Elia Kazan, August Wilson called Lloyd Richards “my guide, my mentor, my provocateur”....
...So what does its chief executive Susan Kay-Williams think is driving the trend this time around?...
...Nick Heymann, analyst at William Blair, said the investment plans would build on the company’s focus of making big-ticket acquisitions rather than a series of small ones....
...Amateur stagings of Picnic, the 1953 William Inge drama in Broadway revival from the Roundabout, may have a fighting chance of matching play to production....
...• John W Tukey and William Cleveland Tukey had opened up the field in the mid-1960s, as his brilliant technical contributions made it clear that the study of statistical graphics was intellectually respectable...
...He made his stage debut in William Inge’s Picnic....
...I was, or, rather I wasn’t: the creaky plot of William Inge’s postwar drama – husband falls off the wagon, attacks his wife, and in high-50s dramatic fashion is carted off to a hospital – had done its inevitable...
...As the clock ticked down, the focus of attention was Inge de Bruijn, the favourite and eventual winner, a muscular blonde Dutchwoman in royal blue swimsuit and black goggles and cap, windmilling her arms...
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