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PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: 'To Be or Not To Be' - The Importance of Being Ernst

Playbill - Wed Oct 15, 5:24 PM ET

The first Broadway house to be named for a Broadway publicist - the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre - officially bowed for business Oct. 14 at the 47th Street site of the old Biltmore with an age-old, ponderously pondered question: To Be or Not To Be.

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