Best Bets on Broadway

Broadway currently houses almost a record number of popular old residents-- Life with Father, Oklahoma!, The Voice of the Turtle, Harvey, Carousel. Newer favorites:

The Playboy of the Western World. Burgess Meredith in an agreeable revival of the finest of modern folk satires (TIME, Nov. 4).

Lady Windermere's Fan. Stylish production of Oscar Wilde's half-glittering, half-gooey drawing-room comedy (TIME, Oct. 28).

The Iceman Cometh. Eugene O'Neill's extremely long, not especially deep, but often vividly theatrical tale of drunken bums whose pipe dreams are their salvation (TIME, Oct. 21).

Cyrano de Bergerac. Attractive revival of Rostand's masterpiece, with Jose Ferrer as the big-nosed, bright-plumed hero (TIME, Oct. 21).

Annie Get Your Gun. Ethel Merman doin' what comes natur'lly--giving humor and high spirits to a big routine musical (TIME, May 27).

Call Me Mister. Gay revue in which quondam G.I.s say goodbye to service days and hello to civilian life (TIME, April 29).

Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME, Feb. 18).

O Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME, Feb. 4).

Show Boat. Still a captivating musi-comedy, with probably the best-loved of all American musicomedy scores (TIME, Jan. 14).

State of the Union. Lively comedy of a straight-shooter who would like a shot at the presidency, and is saved from the party bosses by his clever wife (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945).

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