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...Marc Blitzstein is an earnest, nice-looking, pink-principled native of Philadelphia who was once a wonder-child at the piano, later studied composition under Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schonberg. More than three years ago, Composer Blitzstein's opera about a steel strike, The Cradle Will Rock, was given a bleak but exciting Manhattan production, with the composer pounding a piano for lack of orchestral accompaniment. Last Sunday night, in Manhattan's Mecca Auditorium, another bleak Blitzstein opera had its opening, with the composer at the piano. No For An Answer, originally conceived as a $30,000 production...
Rehearsing since November 17, under the direction of Hugh T. Cunningham, Yale '34, tutor in History and Literature in Dunster House, assisted By Jonas Muller '40, the cast is striving for a repetition of the success last year of the Student Union revival of Marc Blitzstein's musical prognostication. "The Cradle Will Rock...
Myron Simons '40, "Dean" in this play, was acclaimed by Blitzstein for his interpretation of "Junior Mr." last year. Miss Frances Morison, of Cambridge, is another veteran of the "Cradle." She will play "Joan Burke," mistress of one of the dead...
From the minute Shirley Mann began to sing "I'm Checking Home Now" till the ensemble's final triumphant warning that "The Cradle Will Rock," Marc Blitzstein's music drama had a sympathetic Sanders Theatre audience. Saturday night. If the test of a good play is its grip on the listeners, then "The Cradle" was a success...
...everything was bright and sunny, of course. After the first four or five "frame-ups" and "sell-outs", the effect of the play's message began to wear off, simply because Mr. Blitzstein had cried "wolf" too often. The music was occasionally too loud, and the articulation not always clear. But these were only minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock...