http://smellslikescreenspirit.com/2009/11/me-and-orson-welles-review/ Movie Reviews, Movie News, Film, Cinema & Hollywood Wed, 16 May 2012 14:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://smellslikescreenspirit.com/2009/11/me-and-orson-welles-review/comment-page-1/#comment-823 Pablo Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:27:24 +0000 http://smellslikescreenspirit.com/?p=4324#comment-823 Fact Check - See ibdb.com - Shakespeare plays were being done on Broadway back into the 1800s. The first production of Hamlet was at the Winter Garden Theater in 1865. The claim that the Mercury production of JC was the first Shakespeare on B'way sounds like a Wellesian boast, except for the fact that Welles himself staged a version of Macbeth the previous year,and performed in Romeo and Juliet at the Martin Beck in 1934. Fact Check – See ibdb.com – Shakespeare plays were being done on Broadway back into the 1800s. The first production of Hamlet was at the Winter Garden Theater in 1865. The claim that the Mercury production of JC was the first Shakespeare on B’way sounds like a Wellesian boast, except for the fact that Welles himself staged a version of Macbeth the previous year,and performed in Romeo and Juliet at the Martin Beck in 1934.

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