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Save the theaters related television coverage

Coverage features Save the Theaters' 24-hour performance vigil in front of the Helen Hayes and Morosco Theatres. The marathon performance includes readings from many of the plays originally presented at the theaters by playwrights such as Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill. Coverage includes interviews with group members Christopher Reeve, Michael Moriarty, Madeleine Sherwood, Jason Robards, Tammy Grimes and Colleen Dewhurst and with their organizer, theatrical producer Joseph Papp; the continuation of the group's "street theater" vigil in daily performances conducted over eleven days; a compromise plan, presented by the actors, to build the Portman Hotel over the existing theaters ; the New York State Court of Appeals refused to hear the actors' case against demolition of the theaters; the actors' plan to physically block the demolition and risk arrest; New York City Mayor Ed Koch approval of the development of the hotel and his views on its role in the re-vitalization of Times Square; a final ruling by New York State Supreme Court allowing the demolition, scheduled for March 22, 1982; the arrest of more than 200 actors as they try to block the wreckage of the theaters; and the issuance of 170 summons at a local police precinct.

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