In fact, Mr. Leiber had once harbored theatrical ambitions, and many of the show's songs would feel right at home in a full-fledged musical.

She did not abandon her theatrical ambitions: over a number of years Harrison and Baum tried to establish a children's theater in Chicago.

Preminger's first theatrical ambition was to become an actor.

Despite her father's demotion and death, the family remained in relative comfort, thanks to wealthy relatives, who, however, disapproved of Travers's theatrical ambitions.

Her childhood home in Hillsborough, Calif., was not one in which any theatrical ambitions were encouraged.

The pathos with which she gave up her child was a sign that Dorothy would not let theatrical ambition harden her heart.

In 1937 he moved to New York City, and supported his theatrical ambition first with catering and freelance writing and consulting.

Many see links between his behavior and his own thwarted theatrical ambitions.

Beneath the talk of bud pictures and outlaw journalism, Mr. Mailer has not given up his theatrical ambitions.

As a child she nursed early theatrical ambitions, appearing regularly on the radio in Children's Hour at the age of 11, after having submitted a monologue.