Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest box-office hit of the Metropolitan Opera season (16 sellout performances so far) is the Met's bubbly production of Fledermaus. Last week General Manager Rudolf Bing announced that Fledermaus will be hitting the road next fall and winter in a coast-to-coast, 30-week tour of some 40 cities. Object: added revenue for the Met both in box-office receipts and increased royalties from promotion of the Met recording of Fledermaus for Columbia Records. Said Bing: "It's all in line with our new slogan, 'The Met Helps Itself...
...repetitive trivia by the author of If I Knew You Were Comin? I'd"ve Baked a Cake, which should very soon be driving its share of sensitive souls out of the nation's bars. Among those carrying on for Carry Nation are Guy Mitchell (Columbia) and Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (Decca...
...Flagstad at 55 felt that the strain of rehearsals and acting was just too much. After a London performance next fall of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, she plans to close out her 38-year operatic career to follow the life of the concert stage. Met Manager Rudolf Bing still hoped to change her mind...
...weeks before its opener last fall, the Metropolitan Opera found itself in a jam. Boris Christoff, the Bulgarian basso who was scheduled to sing King Philip in the opening-night Don Carlo, had been turned down for a visa. Met Manager Rudolf Bing had to gamble, and gamble fast. He staked his show on a 28-year-old singer named Cesare Siepi, who was almost unknown outside Italy. Handsome young Basso Siepi has turned out to be one of the best bets any opera manager ever made...
...Evening for Richard Rodgers. Out of friendship for Composer Rodgers (and, incidentally, to plug the women's shoes made by Sponsor U.S. Shoe Corp.), Mary Martin made her first TV appearance, accompanied by Rodgers at the piano, and singing I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. Bing Crosby crooned It's Easy to Remember from Rodgers' 1935 movie Mississippi, Valerie Bettis danced the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet from 1936's On Your Toes. Other singers and dancers ran through assorted Rodgers numbers dating from his 1925 Garrick Gaieties to his current South Pacific...