Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fuss. "Among the finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro...
...tryout towns from San Francisco to Boston, new shows were primping, polishing and rehearsing last week for Broadway. Whatever their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush...
...addition to Radcliffe girls, Vlasenko, with Miss Kirienko, and engineer Igor Makarov won the friendship of the off-Broadway cast of "An Enemy of the People" which closed its Boston run last Sunday. The cast invited the three Russians and this writer to a party on Saturday night, and from midnight to 3 a.m., the whole party was "Russian" in tone, with Miss Kirienko singing several ballads, and Vlasenko charming the gathering with stories of the Soviet Union, and in interpreting questions to Miss Kirienko...
...last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden. All the same, after a 21-year absence from Broadway, a play boasting so many good things, in a production with such good things, is well worth a visit...
...production at the Little Opera House, on a two-week furlough from off-Broadway, is powerfully effected. The full plight of a doctor who discovers the town's health baths to be polluted, is relentlessly revealed in successive episodes from the time his brother, the mayor, first suggests that he is a "traitor to society." At the end of the second act a tremendous and truly exciting feeling of futility engulfs the viewer as the doctor attempts to explain the danger and his own remedial plan to a mass meeting where his audience is stacked against him. Agitators...