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Word: broadway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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While bright young (26) French Choreographer-Dancer Roland Petit was flashing and stomping through his sexy Les Ballets de Paris hit, Carmen, on Broadway last year (TIME, Oct. 17,1949), some other ideas were writhing around in his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Cruncher | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...helped put his songs on paper, added full lyrics. Eager little "Zizi" Jeanmaire ("Sure I can sing") looked them over, sang her song into the recording machine. Says Petit: "She sounded awful." She went to work with a pianist, and Petit began planning the choreography. Last week, back on Broadway for another season, Petit sidetracked Carmen to put on the result: La Croqueuse de Diamants (The Diamond Cruncher). Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Cruncher | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...About Eve. An expert, high-comedy examination of Anne Baxter's climb, over the bodies of Bette Davis, George Sanders and others, from obscurity to Broadway stardom (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...giants of American music as Jimmy Archey, Pops Foster, and Tommy Henford are oking out their livelihoods there now. Back downtown, Eddle Condon's 47 West 3rd, features Davison, Edmund Hall, and Ralph Sutton. Nick's, Seventh Avenue and 10th, employs Pee Wee Erwin's ensemble at present. Birdland, Broadway and 52nd, has a considerably less garish bill of fare than usual, headed by Art Tatum and Lennie Tristano's popular group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glittering Gotham Beckons to Pleasure Seekers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...less boisterous is Pardon Our French (Broadway Theatre, B'way and 53rd), the now Olsen and Johnson explosion featuring Denise Darcel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glittering Gotham Beckons to Pleasure Seekers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

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