Walking Down Broadway
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 25, 2005
Closed Nov 6, 2005
Opened Sep 25, 2005
Closed Nov 6, 2005
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Dawn Powell's Walking Down Broadway was written in 1931 and never produced, although Fox bought the rights for Erich von Stroheim who made it into the movie Hello, Sister, which bears almost no resemblance to Powell's play. Marge and Elsie are two young girls newly arrived in New York from Marble Falls, Ohio. They work in an office, live in a rooming house on the upper west side and dream of the romance and glamour that lured them away from home in the first place. Unable to bear another night alone, they take to walking up and down Broadway where they meet two equally lonely and innocent young men.
It tells the story of love and lost innocence as unspoiled small-town naiveté collides with the bitterness and cynicism of world-weary New Yorkers-a theme that runs through almost all of Powell's writing. Written more than ten years after Powell's own arrival in New York from Ohio, it is tinged with nostalgia for her early days and yet unsparing, honest and almost startling for its mixture of romance and frankness.
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When Dawn Powell went to Hollywood for the filming of her unproduced 1931 play, Walking Down Broadway, the cantankerous author enjoyed herself for about a week and then complained to her long-tolerant diary, "The gaiety of early morning brilliant sunshine, immense green trees, and singing birds leaves me depressed and weepy by noon." Even though she'd been paid a princessly sum ($7,500) for the work, she just couldn't shake her chronic blues. What she didn't complain about, though, was the on-set situation: The eventually fired Erich von Stroheim radically altered her work into something that was released as Hello, Sister!, an inane title for a flick featuring Zazu Pitts and the nearly for[...]