Word: commedia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven orchestra players, finally got the job done in ten days. At the first rehearsal, said Conductor Stock, the overture "sounded like Halifax." But its first playing proved it something else: a fine piece of musical escapism, which took its title Scapino from a character in the Italian Commedia dell 'Arte. Said Journal of Commerce Critic Claudia Cassidy: "A blithe, scapegrace, carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through the London streets, spiritually thumbing his nose at Hitler." Last week England's No. 1 conductor, peppery, opinionated...
...conceived, produced & acted by Jimmy Savo). Little Jimmy Savo with his big black eyes, dwarf's body and appallingly baggy pants has often been called one of the world's great clowns, a pantomimist in Chaplin's class. Highbrows have rhapsodically declared that he brings the Commedia dell' Arte back to one-man life. Hundreds of vaudeville audiences have paid him the simpler tribute of howling when he whispered the song River, Stay 'Way From My Door and shooed the river away with childlike gestures. His last Broadway appearance was in the Rodgers & Hart musical...