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Although definite plans began to take shape only three days ago, all casting has been done with the exception of a girl to play Juliet in the balcony scene from "Romeo and Juliet," according to Victor N. Claman, producer. All those interested in the part should call TRowbridge 6-7179 by Thursday night, Claman said...
Producers' Showcase stripped the Old Vic's 2½-hr. Romeo and Juliet down to a tidy 72 minutes last week, and the operation was a dramatic success. Apart from the quicker tempo and TV's obvious advantages of closeups, fadeouts and greater fluidity, the presentation also contributed Otis Riggs's clean, spare scenery which released play and players from the Old Vic's 19th century picture-book designs. John Neville, in the role that Olivier once dismissed with Mercutio-like disdain ("Romeo is really a jerk"), was carved out of beaverboard; he crashed parties...
...last two years of his life and scheduled for release. They include Brahms's Double Concerto, Haydn's Toy Symphony and a Vivaldi Concerto Grosso. Toscanini's son Walter estimates that there are some 30 other approved recordings in Riverdale, among them the complete Romeo and Juliet music of Berlioz and the Second and Fourth symphonies of Sibelius. The recordings are the fruits of a plan RCA Victor worked out with Walter Toscanini in 1954 to get the Maestro to approve or disapprove every scrap of his music recorded since 1937, when the NBC Symphony was formed...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, with Claire Bloom, John Neville (color...
...medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable to make a sound). And best of all, as Reporter Paul Moor observed, "in the final rapturous climax of the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, he will scowl and thrash the orchestra up to the peroration, and then?while the men go on playing, of course?he will stand stricken for a few bars, his face turned toward the empyrean, his hands extended open to the stars, in a sort of ecstasy...