Word: auditioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Six-Bottle Man. French film making is traditionally chaotic, and Gleason is a compulsively active mattress who walks like a man. Their collision has resulted in a good deal of confusion and. somewhat surprisingly, a respectable amount of progress. During a typical day Gleason may record a song (he has...
It was Sherwood who suggested in 1955 that his compulsively talking, ever-quipping wife try for an audition as a comedienne at San Francisco's Purple On ion. She ran 89 weeks. Warm, friendly and modest about everything but her jokes, Mrs. Diller is one successful per former who...
Enter a Goddess. Soon afterward, at a student performance, Soprano Price was heard by Producer Robert Breen, who was then signing a cast for a revival of Porgy and Bess. At Breen's request, Leontyne sang for Ira Gershwin/ Loves You, Porgy and Slimmer time. Before the audition, she...
That same year she laid the foundation for her European career. A manager friend of hers had asked her to sing an audition at Carnegie Hall, without saying who was to hear her. As she started to sing, she noticed a "slim, good-looking man with salt-and-pepper hair...
Remembering the Carnegie Hall audition, Herbert von Karajan invited her in 1958 to make her European debut with the Vienna State Opera in Aïda. Since that triumphant evening, Leontyne and Von Karajan have enjoyed a kind of mutual-admiration pact. After Vienna, the road went speedily upward. In...