Mark Twain Tonight!
Opening Night: June 9, 2005
Closing: June 26, 2005
Theater: Brooks Atkinson
The show made a return to Broadway in 1977. A 1985 tour began in London and ended in New Dehli. On January 17, 2004, he marked his 2000th performance in Germantown, Tennessee. Mark Twain Tonight! has become perhaps the longest-running show in theatre history. Holbrook adds to his Twain material every year, editing and changing it to fit the times and has mined over 15 hours of Twain with more coming all the time. He has no set program – he chooses material as he goes along.
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June 10, 2005
The comforting aroma of hearty longevity perfumes the air at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, as thick and intangible as the cigar smoke that wreathes the man on the stage. For there, disporting himself with the lazy assurance that comes with long years of being adored and having the whole world as your mirror, is the 70-year-old Mark Twain, in remarkably fresh and topical form for someone dead nearly a century.
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