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Playhouse New York. Films and recordings of Charlie McCarthy, Eddie Cantor. Burns and Allen. Jack Benny. Fred Allen. Bob Hope. Bing Crosby. Fanny Brice. Rudy Vallee, and Amos 'n' Andy. 7:30. May 13. Chan...
...tide of backstage events ebbs in one direction, rises in another. One might expect that Bing and Gentele confer regularly to compare notes and exchange strategies. But no. When at a performance on the same evening, they sit in different boxes. "Mr. Gentele and I meet once or twice a week in the corridors, waving to each other-and that is all," says Bing. "So it appears that he gets all his information, if indeed he needs any, from the board of directors or other sources. My only source of information used to be the French restaurant across the plaza...
Costly Indulgence. Bing does not make things any easier for Gentele than he has to. Before Gentele arrived, Bing scheduled the Met's creaking, embarrassingly shabby production of Wagner's Tannhauser for Gentele's first opening night next September. Gentele quickly changed that: it will be a brand-new Carmen starring Marilyn Horn, with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Gentele himself directing. Bing also spent a probable $700,000 on his swan song, last March's new and spectacularly good production (by Franco Zeffirelli) of Verdi's Otello, when the nine-year-old and commensurately splendid...
Their styles of operation are almost as different as the men themselves. Bing, stern and aloof, is a caste-conscious, immaculately tailored autocrat invariably trailed by a deferential retinue, Sir Rudolf to almost everyone. Gentele, 54, hale and smiling, is a democrat in a loose-fitting sports jacket who makes it his business to know everyone down to stagehands and chorus members, many of whom simply call him Goeran...
...regular 1971-72 season ended last week with an extravagant, five-hour operatic gala (top price: $100) arranged, directed and virtually orchestrated and choreographed by Bing himself. On hand were 43 superstars (among them Nilsson, Price, Sutherland, Siepi, Gobbi, Milnes and Domingo) to demonstrate the kind of singing talent brought to the Met during the Bing regime. This was as it should be, for Bing has always concentrated more on big-name singers than on first-rate conductors or enlightened repertory. An hour of highlights from the gala will be broadcast over CBS-TV on Sunday, April 30. On June...