April 14, 1973 NEWSPAPER $1.25 Con ieZidtpsicil Theatre: A National View (Ed) . Rock 'Heavies' Set Spring -Summer Concerts... Bell Sales, Profit High In '1st Quarter . Fogelsong Named President Of Dot Label ... ABKCO/Apple End Ties ... WEA Label '72 Revenues, Income Lead WCI Divisions TOP 10 BELL WEATHER www.americanradiohistory.com COLUMBIA RECORDS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT INVICTUS RECORDS HAS JOINED OUR FAMILY. And we're letting everybody in on the celebration with a pair of tremendous new singles from the es- teemed Holland -Dozier -Holland production company. The unbeatable General Johnson and Jeffrey Bowen wrote and co -produced both of these delicacies, and they have a mile -long string of hits to their credit. Now,with Chairman of the Board they have a tremendous new single, "Only Time Will Tell'.' And from General Johnson himself, a new spellbinder, "Finder's Keepers'.' On Invictus Records Distributed by Columbia Records ` www.americanradiohistory.com 'HE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC -RECORD WEEKLY Sox guhVol. XXXIV Number 43/April 14, 1973 - Publication Office/119 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019/Telephone: JUdson 6-2640/Cable Address Cash Box, N. Y. GEORGE ALBERT President and Publisher MARTY OSTROW Executive Vice President IRV LICHTMAN Vice President and Director of Editorial CHRISTIE BARTER West Coast Manager Editorial New York KENNY KERNER ROBERT ADELS Musical Theatre: ARTY GOODMAN DON DROSSELL Hollywood RON BARON BARRY McGOFFIN A National View Research MIKE MARTUCCI Research Manager BOBBY SIEGEL The musical theatre has a better revivals of favorites as well. Proof of Advertising chance of survival and, indeed, re- this are the west coast productions ED ADLUM newed prosperity if it begins to think staged by Edwin Lester, Guy Lombar- Art Director of the country as a whole, rather than do's summer run at the Jones Beach WOODY HARDING depend on Broadway success to stim- Theatre in New York (and Lombardo Coin Machine & Vending has Sel - ED ADLUM ulate touring companies. Touring com- 8000 seats to fill!), Albert Manager pany off -shoots Broadway den's recent revival, with the original DON DROSSELL of hits are CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago sometimes as much as a year away cast of "Man of La Mancha" in New Circulation from their Broadway opening night. York, and Richard Rodgers' unfortu- THERESA TORTOSA From the nately now -defunct series of summer Manager standpoint of the recording industry alone, this does not provide revivals at Lincoln Center. )LLYWOOD sufficiently broad exposure Well -received Broadway shows ::HRISTIE BARTER of musical 1565 Sunset Blvd. (Suite 525), Hollywood, Calif. 90028 scores to a should receive top-flight touring ver- Phone: (213) Hollywood 9-2966 stimulate better buying sions as soon as possible, led by per- 1SIiVILLE pattern of original cast albums. IUANITA JONES In recent years, some shows, in formers of proven box-office appeal. 306 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tenn. 37203 Phone: (615) 244-2898 fact, have reached Broadway after ex- Returning to the recording end of 4ICAGO tensive out-of-town tours-not try- things, we believe that a national con- 3AMILLE COMPASIO :9 E. Madison St., Chicago, III. outs, but more or less the mirror of cept for the musical theatre will great- Phone: (312) Fl 6-7272 what they are to look like on Broad- ly enhance the appeal of original cast !GLAND product, those involving original pro- DORRIS LAND way. A current big success is a tour- 3 Cork St.. London WI ductions, or, in the case of revivals, Phone: 01-7342374 ing re -write of "Gentlemen Prefer the "original" original casters as well. 1GENTINA Blonds" starring its original star, Carol MIGUEL SMIRNOFF Channing. Called "Lorelei," the show Such national tours will provide tre- Belgrano 3252, Piso 4 "B" Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: 89-6796 will come to Broadway as a proven mendous audience exposure of the kNADA profit -maker, thus greatly lessening show scores, with, undoubtedly, mer- WAI_T GREALIS chandising of these casters on a local 6 Brentcliffe Road, Toronto 17, Ontario, Canada the pressure to recoup its investment Phone: (416) 425-0257 in a short time. level by the labels involved. LANCE From the opposite point of view, The musical theatre appeals to a FRANK LIPSIK 5 Rue Alfred Dormeuil, 78 Croissy "Godspell's" touring company started large audience base. Making more Phone: 225-26-31 shortly after its Off-Broadway productions available in key areas will DLLAND opening, PAUL ACKET and the fact that it was the first album not only satisfy the tastes of these Theresiastraat 59-63, The Hague Phone: 837700 since 1969's "Hair" to be certified a lovers of musical threatre, but can ALY million -seller should say something. build an audience of younger folks GABRIELE G. ABBATE Viale A. Doria 10, 20124 Milano What the stage production achieved who are not sufficiently exposed to LGIUM was to reach a mass audience in a theatre music from other media. TIENNE SMET Postbus 56, B-2700 Sint-Niklaas short period by strategic placement in There is, of course, magic to being Phone: (03) 76-54-39 key markets. on Broadway. But, before getting to JSTRALIA PETER SMITH Our position is based in the belief the Main Stem or shortly thereafter, 40 Winters Way, Doncaster 3108, Victoria, Australia that Americans of all age groups love the musical theatre should be pro- 1PAN the musical theatre, and are not only its magic to other areas of the Adv. Mgr. viding SACHIO SAITO anxious to see new productions, but country as well. :-11.2-Chome Shinbashi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo Phone: 504-1651 Editorial Mgr. FUMIYO TACHIBANA 1-I1-2-Chome Shinbashi, Minato -Ku, Tokyo Phone: 504-1651 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $35 per year anywhere in the S.A.. Published weekly at 34 N. Crystal St., E. Strouds- irg, Pa. by Cash Bax, 119 West 57th St., New York, N.Y. 1010. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y., S.A. and additional offices. Cooyright © 1973 by The Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc. Il rights reserved. 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