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Last year, the Society's production of "The Beggar's Opera," scheduled for the Loeb main stage, folded because the leading singers dropped...
...When Rocco and His Brothers arrived here from Italy a year ago, it was a full, pasta-rich 180 minutes long. After a run in New York art theaters, it mysteriously shrank to 147, then pushed off for the rest of the nation as a beggar-thin 95 minutes. Such chopping may be why so many U.S. film goers wonder what New York critics found to rave about...
...this tradition that Rodgers and Hart did their best work, seldom diverging into the separate operetta tradition into which Rodgers moved after Hart's death led him into partnership with the operetta lyricist Oscar Hammerstein. Characteristics of the realistic musical comedy tradition, stemming from John Gay's Beggar's Opera and similar' works, include a selection of bouncy tunes that require no great vocal prowess to sing, a comic plot that may be either broadly farcical or almost tragic (as in Pal Joey), and a somewhat bawdy story line...
Modern technology has obliterated the frontiers of disease. Thanks to jet planes, a louse brushed from the sleeve of a beggar in an Oriental bazaar may attach itself to a tourist who will land in San Francisco next day-already infected with typhus...
...Lowell House Musical Society has cancelled its production of The Beggar's Opera, originally scheduled as the next main stage presentation at the Loeb Drama Center. It is not known what show, if any, will replace it in the late April slot at the Loeb...