Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be a mistake to regard Thieves' Carnival solely as a play. Anouilh went back to some of the Moliere works and resurrected the term comedie ballet. For its full effect, this show relies heavily on dancing. The roles of the Musician, the two policemen and the nursemaid are all dancing parts...
Sylvester Campbell and George Liker are the policemen as well as the auxiliary dancers that appear periodically. As was the case with last week's play, the set change is effected as part of a ballet. (Actually, the credit goes to the New York production of Thieves' Carnival, from which this idea was later borrowed for Volpone in New York and here.) Liker dances well indeed, though he seems a bit heavy...
...outstanding. He has a fine build and has obviously received excellent training. He moves with facility and grace, and his leg work is superb. He is as fine a dancer of his age as I have ever seen. I understand he is about to tour Europe with a young ballet company; he merits watching when he gets back to New York, for he has the makings of a true danseur noble...
Tyrone Guthrie, director of the Old Vic and the Royal Ballet, will speak on August 1, on "The Director in the Theatre." A Summer School professor, Denis Johnston, professor of English at Mount Holyake College during the year, will discuss the playwright, one week later, on August...
...Silverstein, one of the most gifted and imaginative young directors in the theatre today, quite rightly kept in mind that this work is not a straight play. Moliere called it a comedie-ballet. This production retains all the songs and dances called for in the original. Moliere had as his composer and conductor the famous musician Jean-Baptiste Lully; the Lully of this show is Richard Wernick. Wernick has written a dry and witty score fully in keeping with the play; and he presides over a small live orchestra (all in period costume) of winds and percussion, and plinks...