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On This Day In New York Theater: March 28, 1939 by Barry Gordin

(No. 25 in the series) By: Samuel L. Leiter March 28, 2021: After struggling to regain his form as Broadway's foremost writer of drawing-room comedy, Philip Barry"who hadn't had a hit since 1932"accomplished that aim with éclat in The Philadelphia Story, which opened as a Theatre Guild production at the Shubert Theatre on March 28, 1939, where it racked up 417 performances. Brooks Atkinson dubbed it a "gay and s…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 8:00am on March 28, 2021 ☆ ⚑

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