
Gantry (1970, Robert Shaw, Rita Moreno) - repro
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Stanley Lebowsky, Fred Tobias, and Peter Bellwood’s highly ambitious 1970 musical drama 'Gantry' infamously collapsed and closed on its official opening night at the George Abbott Theatre after a single performance, remaining a legendary Holy Grail curiosity for stage historians. Based on the classic Sinclair Lewis novel *Elmer Gantry*, the intense narrative exposes the hypocrisies of mid-century religious commercialism, tracking an unprincipled, smooth-talking traveling salesman who teams up with a fierce soul-stirring female evangelist to exploit a rural revival circuit. Directed by Jame Hammerstein, the production starred Robert Shaw and Rita Moreno.

