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...Danes-Graduation Ball is even more giddy than Ballet Theater's version; Dream Pictures is a pointless period piece that does, however, include a hilarious dance by three doddering octogenarian couples. While it is at the Met, the company will offer the first U.S. performances of Romeo and Juliet, with the Prokofiev score and new choreography by Frederick Ashton. Then it will visit ten cities in the eastern U.S. and Canada to give more Americans a chance to see ballet storyful, mellow and magical...
...Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini...
Orpheus & Romanoff. Patrick Dennis's bestselling novel Auntie Mame will star Rosalind Russell. Samuel (Boy Meets Girl) Spewack will try to reconquer Broadway with Once There Was a Russian. Britain's Peter (The Love of Four Colonels) Ustinov will make his bid with Romanoff and Juliet. Terence Rattigan will offer two comedies that amused London for a couple of seasons, Separate Tables and The Sleeping Prince. Tennessee Williams' newest, Orpheus Descending, will descend on Broadway with Italy's Oscar-winning Anna Magnani...
Solve the Problem. Most of McCleery's shows have an "upbeat ending." "The afternoon is no time to wring people's hearts out," he explains. "If I were doing Romeo and Juliet, I would show their ghosts floating gently up to heaven, hand in hand. Even with a four-handkerchief show, the ending must come out satisfactorily. If we can't solve a problem, we don't pose...
...stage. CBS, sole backer of the smash-hit musical My Fair Lady, expects to net an additional $5,000,000 from the recorded music of the show, now on the market under the Columbia label. NBC, which has done well from its investment in Call Me Madam, Me and Juliet, Fanny and the current Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne hit, The Great Sebastians, will put up the money for a new musical, Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston. NBC also promised one novelty: before the new musical reaches Broadway this fall, it will have a preview...