Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic Church. This contradiction has turned up in Menotti operas before (e.g., The Medium), in the shape of dramatic conflicts between some form of faith and reason. The theme is rousingly treated in Menotti's new opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street, which last week opened on Broadway to rave reviews. It is Menotti's most ambitious opera to date, and perhaps his best...
...Kraft TV Theater offered the week's best dramatic fun by dusting off an old Italian chestnut, Alberto Casella's Death Takes a Holiday, which was first seen on Broadway in 1929. Actor Joseph Wiseman played the Grim Reaper taking a three-day fling at mortal follies, and was ably seconded by Stiano Braggiotti as the tortured duke and Lelia Barry as the girl who falls in love with Death. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, veteran Pat O'Brien had an actor's field day in The Chase...
Gleason. 38, is a big (6 ft., 230 Ibs.), hard-working Brooklyn boy who started out in an amateur-night act in 1931. He gagged his way into nightclubs and theaters, later made out passably well in a few Broadway shows and movies. "I was," he says, "a fairly well-known bum." A dabbler of sorts, he has twice played serious roles on TV dramatic shows, conducts and writes music, although he cannot read notes ("I use numbers and arrows, then I call in an arranger and tell him what I want"). His newest hobby, psychic research, may prove profitable...
...hours the audience's eyes can take in as many as 30 separate sets, gaily worked in paper, while the ears are assailed by age-old Kabuki tunes in Broadway orchestrations and such Western song hits as Oh! My Papa with Japanese lyrics...
Today his scouts roam New York City and Paris to acquire tunes and lyrics. Step-for-step dance routines from Oklahoma! and On the Town have turned up among such confections as Broadway Cinderella...