Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think the public has got a bit fed up with naturalism," Burrell continued, pointing to the success of musicals, opera, and ballet, as well as bare-stage productions like "Don Juan in Hell" and "John Brown's Body...
...angel in the pantomime ballet, Bronia Sielewicz is regal and lovely; on the other hand, Rod Davis, the protagonist, is slow and awkward in a role that calls for deft, light dancing. Monotonous narration by Jack Rogers also slowed the play's pace...
Paris has long been rather bored with opera. Since shortly before World War I, only a few real enthusiasts have been turning up to see the Lohengrin?, and the Pagliaccis sung against dusty backgrounds; the 2,300-seat Paris Opera House has been half empty even on gala ballet nights. But two years ago the management signed a new director, Maurice Lehmann, a man with the outsized imagination of a Cecil B. de Mille; since then, things have been looking...
...show is a period piece with mild historical warrant: it tells of a French ballet troupe which came to New York around 1870, was burned out of the Academy of Music while still in rehearsal, and joined forces with a melodrama rehearsing at Niblo's Garden. Though presumably an account of how-via The Black Crook-American musicomedy was born, it seems an account of how it died. Few recent musicals have been more lavish, fewer still so long-winded...
Britons, proud of their Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, were never more sure of their pride than last week. Back home to London's Covent Garden came the company after a triumphant 19-week, 24-city tour of the U.S. and Canada, during which Sadler's Wells netted more than $600.000 beyond expenses. Dollar triumph aside. London was simply glad to have Sadler's Wells back. Usually reserved Covent Gardeners gave them tier upon tier of applause at each solo entrance (in a full-length Sleeping Beauty, all but brought down the venerable house when Prima...