Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loewe show, Camelot, on its second night-in Toronto. Soon afterward, Researcher Joyce Haber was assigned to the story, spent 14 days in Toronto and Boston interviewing the mercurial Loewe and getting back-ground information from others in the cast (plus a miserable cold, perhaps inherited from Star Richard Burton). Once, while Researcher Haber and Loewe were dining at Toronto's Franz Josef restaurant, the orchestra unwittingly struck up his On the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady, and the obviously delighted composer swept the young reporter onto the dance floor. Joyce, who had by that time...
...Franz Allers. Beyond that, Lerner's libretto is drawn from one of the best novels of the loth and 20th centuries, T. H. White's The Once and Future King. And Arthur himself is arriving in the shape and voice of Wales's and the Old Vic's Richard Burton, who at 34 is numbered among the half-dozen great actors in the English-speaking world...
...month for the life of the show. From his home on the remote Channel island of Alderney, he wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard Burton he wrote: "I hope it will be borozonic. I will be there on opening night, the old gentleman in the sixth row." Meanwhile, since White is a once and future tippler who plans to go off the wagon soon, the pubkeepers of Alderney were pulling out every bung...
...forgotten that Costume Designer Adrian had died soon after beginning work on the show last year. A wardrobe mistress' husband was found dead in their New York apartment. The chief electrician was hospitalized with bladder trouble. Actor Burton took on a virus that almost choked off his singing voice, and the traditional "company cold" spread to Sir Lancelot (Robert Goulet), was even worse in Boston than Toronto. A chorus girl ran a needle through her foot onstage. Frederick Loewe, who himself suffered a severe heart attack two years ago, was temporarily felled by influenza. "We are all quitting," said...
...Dramatic Art. With a working-class background, she was full of phlegm because "there were hunger marches outside, and inside were girls being taught this tennis-club stuff." After completing the course, she left London on foot to walk north to seek her career, collapsed after 112 miles in Burton-on-Trent. scrubbed out a pub to get fare to go on to Manchester. There she got a job acting, writing and directing...