Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fingernail grip on Broadway in the Theatre Guild's Garrick Gaieties, and was seen briefly in a 1931 flop called Company's Coming. But Broadway, like everything else, was sliding into the Depression. Drawing on all her confidence and energy, Ros got a job with Wee & Leventhal, who operated a cut-rate theatrical circuit covering such Broadway outposts as Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia. Her salary was $45 a week, but she more than doubled it by playing better pinochle than Producer Leventhal on their inter-city train rides...
...undertaken before. I was forced to meditate on the never-never land I was living in-it's part climate, part bank account, part self." Even faced by these unaccustomed self-doubts, Ros still felt master of her destiny. She began looking for a play to do on Broadway...
...Feel. She credits Joshua Logan with steering her away from a too hasty assault on Broadway. He advised: "Get the feel of an audience again. Listen to it. Practice on the road and see what comes of it." Rosalind went on tour in John van Druten's Bell, Book and Candle. The reviews were consistently good, but she thinks she was terrible for the first three months: "I'd become sluggish working with the camera. The stage demands that you use 42 new muscles and you can't let down for one minute." After three months...
Schippers has been a conductor, and one to reckon with, since he turned 20. Up to now, however, he has been known almost exclusively as a conductor of operas by Gian-Carlo Menotti. He led The Consul on Broadway for three months (in 1950) conducted The Medium when it was filmed in Italy, and led NBC's television performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors for the past two Christmases...
...chance to conduct the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in a student contest, and that changed his mind. He worked as a coach for the singers during the rehearsals of Menotti's Consul, got his chance to direct it after the opera had already opened on Broadway...