Looking back, Davidson said, "that picture should have been a theatrical success.

It was criticized by critics as too long, but was a theatrical success.

A woman with a perfect figure might have been able to carry it off with a certain amount of theatrical success.

It became a national theatrical success after a nationwide tour.

Barker's theatrical success enabled him to move into radio work.

"It was a theatrical success - with 93 percent attendance," he said.

But there is, the playwright acknowledges, little chance of a change in identification, for the play has been his only major theatrical success.

Nevertheless, the play's controversy helped its attendance, and it was a theatrical success.

After a month of work, Friml produced the score for what would be his first theatrical success.

Still, the ability to write pop songs is no assurance of theatrical success.