Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Folia: Harpsichord Concerto (Sylvia Marlowe; Concert Arts Players; Capitol). An uncompromising concert work (1926) by the composer of the ballet Three-Cornered Hat. The style varies between a toccata motion of unceasing activity, and arpeggios opposed by ponderous chords. The small orchestra sounds smooth through the sometimes ripping dissonances; the harpsichord sounds like somebody jumping on the bedsprings...
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Sadler's Wells Ballet production of The Sleeping Beauty, with Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes...
Papa Married a Mormon, by John D. Fitzgerald. A pleasant, mock-bucolic Western memoir in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six-guns (TIME...
Papa Married a Mormon is a mock bucolic western in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six guns. It is rarely convincing, but frequently amusing, and few readers will want to revoke the "poetic license" Author Fitzgerald claims in salting the tales of his kith and kin. Take his Uncle Will, for instance -that's his gamblin' and killin' uncle. In a 15-hour poker session Uncle Will won the Whitehorse Saloon and helped the former owner forget his troubles by plugging him with his pearl-handled revolver. The Whitehorse was the hottest...
...best part of the whole film is the choreography of Micheal Kidd. In his final ballet, he transforms a crap game in a sewer into an urgent, exciting tribal ritual that shows Runyon's saints and sinners, the guys and dolls of Broadway, far more clearly than they appear above ground. This dance alone makes the movie worth seeing...