Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swing production of Pinafore "because it was too bop. We had the contemporary beat but we had lost Gilbert & Sullivan." Once in a while, Liebman tingles but the viewers don't-they dialed away in droves during his 20-minute performance of the New York City Ballet's Filling Station. Since that disaster he has kept the dances short and sweet...
...Hollywood musical about the U.S. Navy that has been released this week. As usual, the sailors (Tony Martin, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn) are assigned to watch not foreign straits but domestic curves (Ann Miller, Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds); and they dance so well it makes a taxpayer wonder if ballet lessons are now part of boot training. The dialogue offers few surprises. "I worship the ground you walk on," says Tony Martin. "Now he's talking real estate," says Ann Miller. The songs are old too. Somebody even sings a cheery, beery Ciribiribin. And yet, the picture...
...Antheil: Ballet Mécanique (New York Percussion Group conducted by Carlos Surinach; Columbia). This notorious composition (written in 1924 for an abstract film) started wild fistfights at its Paris concert premiere and a quieter scandal in Manhattan. Thirty years after, its buzzing doorbells, roaring airplane propellers and four mechanical pianos seem just quaint and noisy. But the work has moments that are actually tender, and is surprisingly convincing...
Kiratein Directed Ballet...
Kiratein, the former director of New York's City Center theatre, is the founder and former leader of the City Center Ballet Company, one of the first America ballet companies. His topic is "The Future of the Lyric Theatre," but it will probably encompass the future of the whole artistic theatre, MacLeish believes...