Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Call Me Madam in both its Broadway and Hollywood productions served primarily as a vehicle for Ethel Merman. The show's latest version, now playing at the John Hancock Theater in Boston, in a way constitutes an even greater tribute to the musical-comedy talents of that actress. For Miss Merman is not in the play this time--and the consequences are disastrous...
Henry V, the main Shakespeare work on this year's program, afforded an opportunity to experiment. Canadian-born Actor Christopher Plummer, who had a Broadway triumph as the Earl of Warwick in The Lark (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), was cast in the title role. Opposite him, as the French King Charles VI, Langham put Gratien Gélinas, the ranking clown of French-Canadian musical revues. Members of Montreal's theatrical corps, schooled in the French acting tradition, were brought to Stratford to people the French scenes. The play was a solid hit, with Shakespeare's French...
...under such influences as Schoenberg and Stravinsky," says Moore. "I tried to return to melody as the key to communication." Others will get a chance to decide how he has succeeded. Sold out for its 16 Central City performances, The Ballad of Baby Doe will probably be performed on Broadway in the fall...
...King and I (20th Century-Fox) has already completed one cycle (from Margaret Landon's bestselling 1944 novel, Anna and the King of Siam, to the 1946 movie, starring Rex Harrison and Irene Dunne) and is now busily completing another (from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway musical to the current film...
...strong-minded as the British widow brought to Bangkok in the 1860s to teach English and the scientific method to the king's innumerable children. Yul Brynner, in a bare skull and bare feet, plays the Oriental potentate with the same mannered ferocity that he displayed on Broadway during the 1,246 performances of the play's run. About all that Hollywood has added are the production values of CinemaScope 55 and De Luxe color. Except for a few obviously toy boats in the opening shot, each scene appears built to a supercolossal scale, and the film...