William Ball
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Oct 19, 2026
Jacob Mann ChristiansenHOST
59, there's an opera adaption by Hugo Weisgau.
Jacob Mann ChristiansenHOST
In 1963, there is a Broadway performance at the Martinique Theater directed by William Ball, the great William Ball, who writes a lot of the directing and acting textbooks that become very influential.
Jacob Mann ChristiansenHOST
That receives the Outer Critics Circle Award and three Obie Awards.
Jacob Mann ChristiansenHOST
1976, there's a movie produced with Andy Griffith, John Houseman, and James Keech, which updates the idea of the play to that these characters show up to a television studio.
Lori RosalesHOST
Mm-hmm
Lyndsy FonsecaGUEST
... more than anything felt that I needed to find out if I could really be a serious actor, and I wound up doing a season, a full season with ACT under Bill Ball, and it was the basic thrust and ground, uh, sort of
Marsha MasonGUEST
ofUh, platform that gave me the opportunity really to be able then to go on and do the films because the films kind of came out, you know, I didn't expect that part of my career at all.
Marsha MasonGUEST
It just happened to me.