Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second opera was also a completely rebuilt production: Wagner's romantic The Flying Dutchman, which had not been staged at the Met in ten years. As he had for Verdi's Don Carlo, Bing went to Broadway for his designer, commissioned new sets sketched by Robert Edmond (The Iceman Cometh) Jones. Conductor Fritz Reiner polished cast and orchestra until they shone. If The Dutchman was less of a triumph than Don Carlo, it was mainly because Wagner had given the Met less of a grand opera to work with than Verdi...
...next new production, due in December: Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, staged by Broadway and Hollywood's topnotch director, Garson Kanin...
...strolling player-or was he a wandering minstrel, or even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...
...prepared to be critical. Last spring, a few of them had seen his A Phoenix Too Frequent (whose wry brilliance had been dulled by a second-rate production). This season, a lot more of them will see a lot more of him. In addition to The Lady, Broadway will see Fry's translation of Jean Anouilh's charming French fairy-tale farce, Ring Round the Moon, which opens next week, and some time soon Sir Laurence Olivier will present Fry's Venus Observed...
Benton explained that the offer, made by Ed Sullivan, Broadway columnist and television master of ceremonies, would conflict with University regulations prohibiting the inclusion of Harvard and Harvard institutions in commercial radio and television programs...