Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Ballet Director Tudor had a rejuvenated company to work with. He had kept 15 members of the Met's old company-some of them partly to satisfy the union. But he had 21 new dancers, picked more for their ability to "look and move well on the stage" than for their technique ("I can always teach them to dance"). For top polish, he had brought along Texas-born Ballerina Nana Gollner from Ballet Theatre...
What the Met audience saw was a considerable technical improvement on the old ballet. The stage was sometimes cluttered, but Tudor's well-trained dancers got up on their toes, pirouetted nicely without crashing into one another. What was missing was the brilliant choreography of a man who has proved he can create it. The bacchanale was routine ballet that failed to raise the level of a routine performance...
...stage tale, finally enacted, is no worse, but no better, than blancmange. Composer Britten has turned out a pleasant score, full of tricky tunes and comic-opera ensembles. But the relentless whimsicality makes A. A. Milne seem downright dour; and the hippety-hoppeting would cause growls and mutters in any mildly progressive fourth grade...
...Astor, Broadway and 45th, James Stewart plays the lead role, as he did on Broadway for quite a spell. Another superb comedy returns to the Great White Way in movie form: Judy Holiday won a screen test derby to retain the part which made her famous on the stage in Born Yesterday. Broderick Crawford and William Holden have the supporting roles. The premiere is scheduled at the Victoria, Broadway and 46th, a week from today...
...lush Park Avenue Theatre at 59th reopens Thursday with Joel McCrea in Stars in My Crown. Radio City Music Hall provides Errol Flynn in Rudyard Kipling's Kim as accompaniment to its annual Christmas stage extravaganza, including this year "The Nativity" and "Star Bright." Jose Ferrer's Cyrano de Bergerao adds extra holiday performances at the Bijou December 25 through January...