Word: beaton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recovering from a broken hip). Having always been a theatrical conductor in the concert hall, he seemed completely at home in the theater, drawing all the score's turbulence from the orchestra without trying to make it the star of the show at the singers' expense. Cecil Beaton contributed dazzling if hardly daring sets, notably a kind of winged pagoda against a distant, unreal blue sky, which suggested that Turandot is not set in a real China but in an exotic region of the mind...
...show has its palpable good points -for a starter, George Abbott's direction. When the scarlet ladies, decked out by Cecil Beaton with inspired bad taste, stomp the stage, celebrate the flesh and sneer at the clergy, Tenderloin has a fleering, gamy exuberance. Again, when the stage rocks with the round-dance economics of How the Money Changes Hands, or Ron Husmann rolls out The Picture of Happiness, there is sass and to spare. Jerry Bock's score is better than average, and the Sheldon Harnick lyrics are better than the score...
...Recovery, is headed by four former Castro officials, has cells all over Cuba, and publishes a clandestine newspaper, Rescate (Rescue). Nine small guerrilla bands are operating in Cuba's mountains-though a government patrol last week claimed the capture of the most publicized insurgent, ex-Castro Captain Manuel Beaton...