Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...albums for the major record companies. In addition, he has built a fine reputation as an interpreter of baroque music, which he claims to understand intuitively because of his experience in "living theater." Currently, he is planning an operetta based on Chekhov's The Boor, recording albums of Broadway overtures (for Columbia), Broadway ballets (for RCA Victor), writing an autobiographical survey of the U.S. musical scene. His breathless commuting between composing and conducting, Broadway and highbrow, has earned him, in some quarters, the affectionate handle of "the Poor Man's Lenny Bernstein." What makes Lehman run? "I like...
...theater piece, Cue for Passion holds attention and, with no greater indebtedness than many Broadway rewrites, uses a far happier model. But as creative drama it is too explicit, too unlarge, in its writing too literary-often seeming, not like prose as compared to Shakespeare's poetry, but like prose as distinct from talk...
With an expressive off-Broadway arena-staging by José Quintero, The Quare Fellow is sprawlingly uncertain in design and graphically unflinching in detail. As an in-the-dock record, with capital punishment on trial, it avoids being strident but is only fitfully trenchant. Where it comes off well is as a tragedy of manners-of convicts outraged that a condemned man has not saved his cigarette butts, betting their Sunday bacon on whether the quare fellow will hang, greedily rushing the guard carrying the quare fellow's last dinner, fighting in the quare fellow's grave over...
...Gift of the Magi (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Richard (Damn Yankees) Adler has written the songs for this version of O. Henry's sentimental classic; with Sally Ann Howes, currently Broadway's My Fair Lady, and Hollywood's Gordon MacRae...
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