Arts i; Illtertainme t
Broken Glass
by Arthur Miller
directed by Evelyn Orbacn
March 8 • April 9, 2000
At The Top Of His Game
It is 1938 in Brooklyn in Arthur Miller's
new play about sexual awakening, the
consequences of denial, and the toll that
social injustice takes on an individual.
A former Detroiter takes the creative
helm of NBCs "Twenty One."
Arthur Miller's play calls for the resonance
of a live cello, with original music by
William Bolcom. The cast includes:
Chris Anne Voudoukis, Mark
Rademacher, Joe Haynes, Cynthia Blaise
and Cellist Mifa Vortsman.
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avid Floyd always cele-
brates Passover, but this
year he should be well pre-
pared to handle the Four
including contestants and questions.
"I like the drama of both of them
competing and not really knowing
what's going on in the opponent's
booth.
"In the old Twenty One, there were
just open-ended questions, but I think
multiple choice is more viewer friend-
ly
A staff of writers comes up with the
questions, posing 11 questions for
Questions.
Floyd, who grew up in Michigan
and lives in California, can draw on
his experience as producer of the game
show Twenty One, which
is giving him plenty of
experience with dramatiz-
ing the question-and-
answer format.
. Floyd joined the show
shortly after plans to put
Twenty Olie on the air
were initiated by executive
producers Fred Silverman
and Phil Gurin. He was
part of the team that
designed the new format
for the program that orig-
inally Was popular in the
1950s.
"It pretty much came
together by committee,"
says Floyd,39, who
moved west 15 years ago
trying to find his way in
the entertainment indus-
try "We went back and
forth. We'd come up with
ideas, and the network
would come up with
ideas.
"Everybody would
David Floyd: "I think people got tired of sitcoms and
make a suggestion, and
were looking for something else. People are definitely
we'd try a run-through to
interested in winning millions of dollars." .
see how each one worked.
We did tests and played
each category and rating them accord-
the game a whole bunch of different
ing to difficulty. After the head writer
ways, trying them live with dummy
reviews each set, they go to Floyd and
contestants. Finally, we'd compro-
then the two executive producers.
mise."
"Most of our writers worked on
Floyd works closely with Maury
other
game shows and are used to
Povich - currently the only Jewish
writing
questions," says Floyd, former-
game-show host on prime-time net-
ly
associated
with The Big Date star-
work television — as the show moves
ring
Mark
Walberg
on the USA
around in prime-time slots to attract
Network and the All New 3's a Crowd
more viewers for the ever-growing
featuring Alan Thicke on the Game
audience.
Show Network.
"I like the fact that [Twenty One
"All the questions go through our
features] competition between two
research
staff just to make sure that
people," says Floyd, now in charge of
everything
is correct. We are very
the creative elements of the show,