Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wobbling Sphinxes. To build the new production of Verdi's triumphal tragedy of the Nile, Bing had brought in the same crack team that gave Verdi's Don Carlo a new glow last season: Broadway's Maggie Webster and Designer Rolf Gerard. They soon found out what everyone from Bing to Conductor Fausto Cleva definitely did not want: "All those wobbling sphinxes, painted canvas temples, unrehearsed supers in ridiculous costumes, and four-footed beasts." They set out to make the new Aïda "as simple and uncluttered as possible...
Purples & Pinks. For his part, Designer Gerard wanted to create an "effect" of Egypt that the modern eye could accept and believe. Emphasizing massiveness ("a Rockefeller Center without windows") rather than the usual archeological detail, his Egypt sometimes seems closer to Broadway than the Nile. Even so, it is effective: his third-act temple looms 36 feet high, four feet higher than his Don Carlo sets (which broke Met records). As he did in Don Carlo, he moved everything down close to the footlights so that many in the Met's 500 "blind" seats could see. But what would...
...Manhattan pencil factory at $7 a week, advanced to a pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked him to write a musical. The Whirl of the World (1913) was an immediate success, and at 26 he was already established as a full-time composer. With production-line efficiency, he turned out 78 more operettas, including The Student Prince (which once had nine road companies going simultaneously...
...Tickets to Broadway (RKO Radio) is a backstage musical that makes its only nod to the times by placing its song, dance and story routines in & around a television studio. Though the commercials are missing and Technicolor is floridly present, the film so well reflects the quality of current TV entertainment that moviegoers may feel their fingers itching for a dial...
Detective Story. Broadway Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective-squad room becomes an even better movie as filmed by Producer-Director William Wyler; with Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker (TIME...