Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What often seems like simple, elementary la-plume-de-ma-tante performing is in truth almost untranslatably idiomatic. From two of Broadway's outstanding virtues. La Plume removes the accompanying kinks: there is no aggression in its showmanship, no tension in its speed...
...refurbish the perennially popular double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, the Met's Rudolf Bing got lavish, handsome but unimaginative new sets from the hands of Scene Designer Rolf Gerard, hired a top Broadway director, Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero. Although he had never done an opera before, and had seen only half a dozen in his life, Director Quintero somehow managed to absorb most of the stagy, stiff-kneed mannerisms of traditional opera productions. Nevertheless, particularly in Pagliacci, he added some truly exciting touches: Nedda, starting her first-act aria reclining voluptuously...
Died. Harry Revel, 52, bachelor composer of popular love songs (Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?), who also wrote scores for Broadway (Ziegfeld Follies of 1931) and Hollywood, often teamed with Lyricist Mack Gordon; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Damn Yankees. The musical that played hell with the national game on Broadway gets a helluva good deal itself from Hollywood...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). France Nuyen, who is part French, part Chinese, part Broadway (The World of Suzie Wong), in a special production number worked up for her by Director Joshua Logan...